American Quote by Christopher Hitchens

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

— Martina Navratilova

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American; but also…

— Fala Chen

It doesn't matter where you come from, what matters is where we're going as a nation. You can be Pakistani-Scottish, Polish-Scottish, even English-Scottish.

— Humza Yousaf

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

— Dinesh D'Souza

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the…

— Justin Baldoni

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always…

— Melanie Laurent

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in…

— Rita Wilson

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

— Henri Bourassa

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone…

— Frank McCourt

I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way.

— Sienna Miller

I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.

— Dinaw Mengestu