Cree Summer Quotes

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

To leave home, it's got to be worth leaving.

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

When I left Baltimore I put everything I owned in my dad's pick-up truck and drove cross-country to make it as a rockstar in L.A.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

It wasn't easy at all for a qualified engineer to take the decision of giving it up, leave Punjab and try to make a name in films. But I really wanted to be an actor, hence I took the decision.

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.

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.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

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

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.