Greg Wise Quotes

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got lost in an East London market.

When I'm in the U.K. - and I'm here more than people would think - I tend to keep a very low profile.

I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

When I went to Germany, all I knew were German swear words.

I am very happy and satisfied with my first year in Italy.

Whenever I have time off, I love to travel and explore.

When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea about James Dean or the Beatles or Charlie Chaplin, modern music or modern cinema.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself.

I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

I see a lot of nice hotels, but I never really get to enjoy the cities, because I have to be on a plane the next day.