Michael Ballack Quotes

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

I'm open to going abroad, even though it will be difficult with my son.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

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

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

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

Some days I think I would definitely like to move abroad but then, other days, I think I don't fancy it at all.

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

If I ever had to emigrate, I would probably go to America.

I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

I worked as a janitor in Canada for nine months. It's during that time when I experienced extreme homesickness.

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

When I moved to Europe 12 years ago, my biggest concern was whether I'd ever speak decent French. Practically every American I knew came to visit, many saying they dreamed of living here, too.

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.

Moving to the United States is a huge decision.

I was training in Spain for 15 months, and while I was there, my parents didn't want to be halfway around the world away from their 14-year-old daughter. So they migrated to the U.K. because they had Hungarian passports, and that's in the E.U., so they could work there.

I was always going back and forth between Singapore and the U.K.

When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents moved from France to America.

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy. I spend a few years there before my family returned to Russia.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.

A lot of people are trying to get out of their home country and think 'making it' is if you're able to work in another. For me... I'd be quite content to keep doing my own little films down there for the rest of my filmmaking career.