Ashley Wagner Quotes

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

I had a few really bad years in school, just from not fitting in and being bullied. It was kind of brilliant being a military brat, though, because when you're in that kind of situation, you just think, 'I only have to hang on for another year, because then we'll move. It'll be fine if I can just get out of here.'

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

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.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

Military children don't make foreign policy but they live it.

I've always been independent. My father was in the army, so we moved every two years. I had to go round and bang on the neighbour's door each time to find out if they had kids I could play with.

My father was in the Army so I have lived all over India.

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

Military families are resilient through countless relocations, leaving friends, networks and transitioning to new schools and new jobs while fitting in to new communities.

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

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

Home is wherever I go.