Nicolas Anelka Quotes

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

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.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

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

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

Rio was a period of my life, and then, poof, I'm gone. I was very young living here, just kind of floating. New York was a foundation for everything I do today. Rio was the bridge.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

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

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.