Red Gerard Quotes

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

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

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

I moved out to L.A. from New York... and I remember feeling, kind of like anyone does when they first move, so very lonely and isolated.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I'd never lived away from home before.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

I had never been out of the Bay Area before. It was very traumatic moving to New York.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.