American Quote by Joel Grey

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up…

— Ashley Bell

I used to say to my mom and dad all the time, 'I'm going to move to America.'

— Peyton Royce

“where your father was from. America wasn’t like that. You became what you coveted.”

— Hala Alyan

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

— John Cho

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

— Gabriel Iglesias

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

— Alex Tizon

My parents taught me by example what it means to be American: to hope and to dream, and to work hard for those hopes…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon…

— Hasan Minhaj

I just wanted it to be American.

— Harmony Korine

“In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe…

— Bridget Asher

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came…

— Ayelet Waldman