Bryan Ferry Quotes

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

I was a really, really depressed kid.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.

Living, it's awful for me.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

I remember, when we moved out to Colorado, I was struggling. The mountains were so big, and I wasn't really prepared or used to it all.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

I think that a lot of people I'm close to feel that they went through a period of real difficulty when they moved away from home... You do have to reinvent yourself, and people have to struggle with that. It was really a struggle for me.

I remember a night when I was living in Swindon on my own, and I couldn't sit on the couch because there were two cushions, and I couldn't sit equally between them.

I remembered what it was like: the weirdness, being the odd man out, trying to make my way around campus, and trying to figure out who my friends would be, who to steer clear of. I wrote it all down in a fanciful way - the feelings of alienation, the feelings of uncertainty, of being away from home for the first time.

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.