Haley Lu Richardson Quotes

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

My father's in the military, so we moved a lot. I was born in Jersey but grew up in Maryland until we moved to L.A. to pursue my acting career. Music came into it after that.

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 left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

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 love Lyon and have only known Lyon, so obviously, it will be a big change if I do go, but a change that I am ready for and one that will be good for me and my career. It would be the end of one life and the start of another exciting one.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of college in Toronto and wasn't happy there. I didn't have any friends in New York City, but I applied and got in. It was pretty overwhelming, but everyone in New York is so ambitious and creative.

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

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

I went back to high school and decided that I wanted to be a kid for a while, whatever that means, but once again I found myself back with acting, so clearly I couldn't escape the passion.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

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 first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

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