Shay Mitchell Quotes

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

I'm going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I haven't seen. I've spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

I've been able to see the world many times over.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

I'd never left America until I was 18.

My life changed forever the first time I went to the southern hemisphere.

In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

I think for me the final push to move to Paris was the fact I wanted an adventure and I was slightly bored of my life in London.

Coming to Pakistan has been unbelievable. It is the best thing of my career.