Idris Elba Quotes

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.

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.

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

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

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 really live anywhere.

I'm a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

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

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

If you travel as much as I do - 165,000 miles last year - you exist nowhere. You're always between heaven and earth, you're always arriving in a new place, you're always starting from the beginning - talk about origins - and you don't know quite what's going to unfold. You live in the unexpected and the inexplicable all the time.

To walk is to lack a place.

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've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

I've been on the road I think probably three years.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

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

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.