Unfamiliar Environment Quotes

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.

When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me, and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day.

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.

I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

I was living in my coach's basement.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.

I don't want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won't be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.

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.

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

So when we finally settled down outside of Seattle I felt totally uncomfortable with that idea.

I don't sleep well when I'm traveling, so there's nothing I like more than getting in my own bed.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

If I'm climbing really slow, I kind of feel like, 'Hmm, this is weird.' Like a fish without water.

Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.

The conditions are always slightly better back in the U.K. There's a lot of distractions when you play away in China and it's very easy to get on a bad run out there, with various things going on when you play.

I don't think we were shy so much as we were terrified. Especially when we did 'Saturday Night Live' on live TV. We looked really animatronic because we were scared, but it came off as being this alien sort of attitude, which served us well, because people were like, 'Whoa, this is so weird.'

The scariest thing about reality TV is having all new characters that you have to be introduced to.

If you do something mechanically for years to come, you tend to think that is life, but put yourself in a totally bizarre location, and you tend to discover so many aspects of yourself and life in general.