Diego Klattenhoff Quotes

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.

I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I'd literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It's been great. I'm based in New York, and every day, it's amazing.

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

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

The first years when I came to New York, everything was too big and too much. For me, it was too difficult here, but bit by bit, it became one of my favorite places.

Living in Chicago as a country boy, basically, and going to college made a very big impact on me.

I just feel like my life changed in so many ways, and I'm just taking it all in.

When I came to Mumbai, it was very difficult. I enjoyed every bit of it, but it was so new, and life was very different - new people and new home.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

Moving to New York was the best decision I ever made.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.

As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.