My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my…

I've sung in Russian, I've done an anecdote in Russian and a poem in Russian. My mother can no longer say I'm not using…

— Tim Key

I'm half Russian, so I naturally have very dark hair.

— Chloe Fineman

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite…

— Sophia Myles

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have…

— Kirk Douglas

I'm half-Russian, half-Polish and all Jewish.

— Kim Bodnia

My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.

— Cheryl Burke

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five…

— Chris Abani

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

— Jacki Weaver

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent.…

— Amy Tan

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and…

— Lev Grossman

My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.

— Arizona Muse

My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure I was…

— Matt Wagner

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack