Rory O'Malley Quotes

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

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.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

It was a very big decision when I decided to leave B. Tech to come to Mumbai. But they were always supportive. At one point, I felt I shouldn't do it. My mother encouraged me then.

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

I lived in LA for almost nine years and if I never went back there again it would be fine.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I think I went through my phase of feeling sort of invisible when I left my small hometown in Canada and moved to the big city of Vancouver. I kind of had to decide right there in that moment what I was going to do with the rest of my life and make a thousand decisions after finishing high school. Fortunately, I chose acting.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.