Gad Elmaleh Quotes

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.

In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where my parents had grown up, where they had met; it was the city where I was born.

Wisconsin will always be home to me in a nostalgic kind of way.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.

And I hope you find it, what your looking for, and I hope it's everything you dreamed your life could be and so much more

I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

Heaven was the place where you kept alive the dreams of your memories.

Welcome to those who believe in the power of dreams and who would like to join me in my exploration of life.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.