Bonnie McKee Quotes

I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show.

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard.

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.

We were living in California, and it just wasn't conducive for the lifestyle that we wanted with kids. Los Angeles is tricky to get around, there's paparazzi to deal with, and I had this feeling that I just wanted to move back to Australia.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life.

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red Road.' But over here you have the beach and the mountains and the climate. A lot of people diss L.A. as being all tinsel town, fake this and fake that, but a place is only as good as the people you know.

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.

Resettlement in new homes was the only possible and practicable solution

I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.

I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I've never really felt at home in L.A. I've only been here to work, and then I immediately go back to New York.