Juliet Stevenson Quotes

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

It was the rootlessness that went with being the son of an RAF officer that shaped me. I had been to 11 schools by the time I was 9.

I am a Maharashtrian but was not brought up in Maharashtra, as my father worked in CPWD and was transferred every two years. So I have always been a gypsy. I, therefore, could not make good friends, and it still takes me a long time to form attachments.

I'm an army brat - so I grew up traveling every two to four years.

When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

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.

We lived in 14 different houses until I was 8, renting here and there.

Growing up, I never had a steady home.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

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

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

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.

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

I grew up on army bases all over the world, but I'm from Alabama.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

I tell people I'm from all over Brooklyn because I never stayed in one part of Brooklyn.

I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. I changed schools eight or nine times.