Willie Aames Quotes

I've been able to see the world many times over.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

I was a kid from Winnipeg - I didn't know anything about the world.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

My parents always instilled in me to be a citizen of the world, so that's why I've taken to traveling and why it's such a huge part of my life.

That old town clerk looking at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

I get to travel so much. I get to see so many different parts of the world. I get to meet new people every day. I experience new cultures, meet new fans from different countries. I get to perform for them, too.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

We would rent this old van and drive anywhere we could get in 10-to-12 hours. We scraped by with little money, but there's a lot to be said for those days. We were naive, but there was no pressure and a lot of freedom.

As long as there is a demand for me to visit other cities - and hopefully, other countries - that's what I want to do.

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

I don't believe in the whole thing of staying anywhere - we are meant to explore, to travel, and meant to spread our roots.

I spent 12 years traveling more than six months a year. I really needed to see the world.