Dustin Lance Black Quotes

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I moved to Shaker Heights from Pittsburgh, PA, just before I turned 10.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

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

I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I knew I needed to move away when I was 15, but when I got to Norwich, I spent nights crying myself to sleep with homesickness. For any young kid moving away from home, that is the biggest thing you have to deal with.

I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

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

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

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

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

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

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.

When you move to L.A. or New York, it's easy to get a little lost and forget your original goal.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.