Tim Pigott-Smith Quotes

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words.

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

I was very affected as a foreigner coming from Copenhagen, which is the safest, most liberal town in the entire galaxy. I was like an alien stranded in a strange land for the first time in the U.S.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

Australia is fun, but completely exhausting and confusing because I never get on with the different time zone.

When I moved from Canada to Korea, I experienced a massive culture shock. I wasn't familiar with Korean culture at all and was very surprised at the hierarchical elements of Korean culture. However, at the time I was determined to succeed so I became a sponge and just soaked in everything I could.

Well, we shoot for so long on 'Stranger Things' that I know Atlanta really well.

I love going to sleep in one city and waking in another.

The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.

But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.