Rachel Khoo Quotes

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

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?

Moving to Glasgow from Feyenoord was a life-changing experience.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.

Moving to Atlanta is one of the best things I did.

I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love stepping off the plane and feeling the heat and the foreign smell of being somewhere different.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

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.

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is boring.

I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn't necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

If something comes around that would be a challenge, then that would be wonderful. But if it's a watered-down version of something I've already done, I'd rather do something else.

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

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I'm going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I haven't seen. I've spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.