Susan Estrich Quotes

California is an island, and New York's an island. Maybe it's time for me to change islands.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

I moved to New York when I was 17 for college.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

I grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I wanted to make it in New York. I thought if I went out to the Midwest, I'd be burying myself. But I was wrong.

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

My mum knew if I got out of Kolkata, I wouldn't return. So she made me sit for the entrance of St Xavier's. But once I set foot in Delhi, there was no returning.

When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could be a tawdry love affair or telling off a mean-looking bus driver because he doesn't like to stop for noisy teenagers. It could be cheating at cards or eating a peanut even though you're allergic. For me, danger might be getting out from the protective cloak of my family and venturing into the world more of my own, even though I don't know what- or who- awaits me.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".