Forest Whitaker Quotes

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

I've been all over the world. I've been to Japan, Africa, Morocco, everywhere. Heck yeah, I would go to Ireland. Why not?

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.

Well, I first started going to Europe in the late '70s.

I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

The first time I went to New York, it was really exciting, and I thought, given half the chance, it would be nice to live there - the same with London.

I'd like to tour all over the world. I'd like to be everywhere. I've really wanted to tour out of the country. I think that would be really cool.

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America.

I do a lot of traveling overseas.

An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.

I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.