When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I was born 400 years ago instead of now, I wouldn't have the life I have. There were freak shows, and there was horrible discrimination.
I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.
It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
People are either born hosts or born guests.
I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
I wasn't born, I was ordered from room service.