Olivia Holt Quotes

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

I left the Midwest when I was twelve years old, and I haven't lived in a small town since.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

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.

It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test.

It was really tough being 14 and moving away from home.

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don't love L.A. I don't want to leave Chicago.

But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.