One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
I am not an American; I am the American.
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.