America Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

— Morgan Freeman

I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially…

— Colin Firth

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

— Bill Bryson

I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own…

— Nicolas Cage

I do a lot of explaining of where I'm from to Americans.

— Colter Wall

I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end of the…

— Helen Mirren

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to…

— Rick Yune

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we…

— Leslie Fiedler

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

— Charles Olson

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am…

— Henry Miller

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

— Luc Sante

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.

— Jon Anderson