Dylan Walsh Quotes

We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in.

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me.

When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.

I love being a foreigner.

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.

I wanted to do comedy because I left Malaysia and went to America. I got bitten by the Western, idealist, opinionated, democracy bug.

The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.

Life in England was a bit difficult. It is not easy for a South American. Some people get on fine, and for others, it is harder to adapt.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

I'll always be a foreigner.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate - with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.