Emayatzy Corinealdi Quotes

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.

Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

I moved to New York when I was 17 for college.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I travel a lot.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.