Carla Gugino Quotes

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

I feel good about the fact that I finally found something I love. I never lived in one place for very long - that's the way my whole life has been. I was always packing and moving around, staying in Canada, Kentucky, Jersey, St. Louis - it all helped because I was always learning new accents, experiencing different environments.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

I live wherever I happen to be.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

I'm a bit of a nomad anyway, so I find it quite easy to settle in places very quickly.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

I spent the first seven years of my life in a caravan traveling around Europe and the United States because my parents were just obsessed with traveling.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.