Zal Batmanglij Quotes

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

My family moved around a lot, so I don't have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips back to Queens.

There is an old guest house opposite my house, and grandsons visit from time to time from the U.S., every time grown up a little. I don't know whether the same grandchildren come every time or it is someone else.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

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

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

I have really fond memories of Texas. By the time I was eight, we started to go back to Chile very regularly, and many family members came to visit us because we couldn't go visit them.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

My family lives there, so I come back sometimes between shows for a couple days. I get back a couple times a year. When I was 30 to 34 I was weirded out when I came back - you know, how your past gets away from you. It's grown so much.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.