Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

In my opinion, life is more important than show business.

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

I lived in New York City, and when I was about 24 in the 1980s, I decided to get out of here. I wanted to go live in Australia for a year or something, and it ended up being 18 years.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

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

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.

Ultimately, I just made the decision to move to L.A. sight unseen. It took me a while to save up some money to do it.

The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.

Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.

Life is more important than work.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

I think nothing I've done has impacted my life as much as working on 'Treme,' because it was the first project that I worked on in the United States after being an actor in the Netherlands my whole life, basically.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.

You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.

The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.

I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There's more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.

I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.

Moving to the United States is a huge decision.