Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

Travelling expands the mind rarely.

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.

I always knew I was going somewhere - going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out there.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.

I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying.

Sometimes it's important to get out of that comfort zone and, I think, try new things, and sometimes you can express yourself better.

I always learn a lot when I do so. You know, when you step out of your comfort zone and even your cynical zone, and open yourself up to what other people might experience and why they do so.

Everything I've ever done has been because of travel. Right from leaving Australia to where I am today - it's all been about exchanging different points of view. The most important lesson I've learnt is to look and listen to what's happening around you.