Pearl White Quotes

Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where; He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I always felt strangely out of place and alien.