Adapting to a New Environment Quotes

The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get ..., you're thrown into this new trailer - here's your wardrobe.

I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad's job was transferred.

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.

When I signed for Vancouver, it was funny because my mom didn't really want me to move away. She was concerned about all my schooling.

But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

I grew up in Kentucky, and went to boarding school outside Boston at Phillips Academy Andover for two years.

To preserve my sanity I had to leave England and move to New York.

I don't think I would have any problem at all playing in England. I'd love it.

I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

When I came to Chelsea and worked with Mourinho, it was my first time abroad, so that was an important stage for me.

I think that I was lucky to have that period of time [ like coming to New York] because everything was so exciting and new.

I lived in Paris for about nine months. It was an experience.