Dad Quote by Claudia Kim

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

— John Cho

My dad was going to graduate school at Columbia, in New York, so we moved there. After he graduated, we ended up settling in…

— Lisa Su

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

— J Balvin

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

— Erik Estrada

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

— Frank McCourt

I haven't taught since 2004, but I taught high school English for seven years, primarily at a place called Haddonfield Memorial, which is in…

— Matthew Quick

My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to…

— Christina Milian

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

— Scott Westerfeld

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why…

— Rinko Kikuchi

I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place…

— J. Michael Straczynski

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

— Anita Diament

My dad's from New Jersey, so I used to go to America a lot. I feel like it is a second home.

— Passenger