Alexandra Daddario Quotes

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.

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

I live in L.A., I grew up here, it's not that crazy for me because it's L.A., you know?

London is really nice, and I'm really happy here, but, of course, I've moved here to play football and not just to be in the city.

I was an innocent Delhi girl, which is good for an actress, but worked against me when I shifted to Mumbai.

Some people don't have an open mind, and when I was traveling to different places I think I found it hard to enjoy things. You know, I come from a great city where there are lots of things happening, and if you end up in a small town where you don't have all those things you can feel the difference. Somewhere along the way, though, I think I learned to appreciate the difference.

I like Chino more than L.A., to be honest.

I really tried to avoid living in L.A. for as long as I can.

I can go years without going to Los Angeles, but I think my living in Brooklyn is critical to my continuing to have a fairly happy life in the film industry.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.

I'm happy in Paris, and I hope to be for many years.

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

My well-being and my happiness is much more important to me than how much I can achieve.

I'd like to shapeshift into any person, to understand a new perspective, and hope that that changes my perspective.

I enjoy leading a well-rounded life. Believe me, I don't take it for granted.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.