Chantal Akerman Quotes

I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

I have a sense of Europe also being like home. I mean, Australia is my home, and my heart is there, but I suppose I've always felt close to Europe, given we had family there, and we would visit.

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we'd moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents' houses were 'home,' and the sale of the last of those houses was hard.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.

Home is where my mom is.