Arthur Hailey Quotes

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I've been to places that otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go to, and seen things I wouldn't have seen, if I didn't have the job.

I always recognized that modeling would allow me to see and do a lot, so I looked for opportunities to learn and grow.

Whenever you move to a new atmosphere, the first few days are difficult. But I always felt that an actor needs to move out of his comfort zone and experience different working environments. And that's why I was looking at moving out of my own comfort zones and work with different kinds of people. It helps you grow as an actor.

I think I found roles which weren't the roles I thought I'd be doing but they were the kind that brought me where I never imagined myself to be.

I don't want to keep doing the same thing over and over for the rest of my life.

Moving out and living on my own was a big thing, but to be in a different country with different coaches and a different mentality changed me as a person, as a player, the way I think about things and the way I see people.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

Coming to Houston was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up.

I moved to New York because I thrive there.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live in another land, in another place, and just get completely soaked up in another way of being. Could be in this country or another country, somewhere were you can be reborn a number of times not just creatively, but personally as well. I guess I want to go through life as more than one person.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.

travel is compost for the mind

The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and then ask yourself 'what should be done about it.' I believe that if you do this you will move much faster towards what you want to get out of life than if you don't!

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.