Karen Allen Quotes

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

We used to go in the woods by ourselves, and you can't help noticing the world then, especially animals. People used to know a lot about the natural world, especially in the country.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

London is not a healthy place. I feel much healthier when I'm living in the countryside or, indeed, anywhere out of London. When I go back to the countryside to visit my mother, I get out of the car, and suddenly there's great wafts of fresh air.

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey area between rural and suburban, so there were a lot of forests and parks.

My grandfather loved the countryside.

Although I'm a city boy, I am a rural person at heart - and that comes from school. I'd lived near Marble Arch in London and it was fantastic to be surrounded by fields and trees.

I am not a country girl at all. I tried the whole country dream and it didn't work for me. I need the madness and pandemonium of a city around me.

I was born and grew up in Tokyo, so I didn't know about nature.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

My mom is a country lady. She wants to be in the trees.

I grew up in a village just outside Le Mans, so nature and fresh air are among the things I love the most.

I don't want my kids growing up to be city kids.

I live in the middle of nowhere. I'm a country bumpkin in Ireland, in Donegal, and to go from that to Toronto, huge city, massive buildings just stretching so tall.