Tony Shalhoub Quotes

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like!

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

I'd never been content in America.

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.