David Berman Quotes

We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I didn't know what was happening, how it was going to be, how it was all going to feel. As time went on it was great. Everything felt good so we decided to go with it.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

Change is always a little bit strange.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

Change is rarely comfortable.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

Life is one big transition.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

I've been no stranger to change.

It's hard when you are trying to ingratiate yourself in a completely foreign world. It takes a long time.

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

I never know if it's the right choice I'm making. It's always weird going from one place to another.

I'm new to this TV thing, at least as an actor. It's a challenge. The thing I have to adjust to is the changing directors every week. That's new for me. I tend to establish with a director - and then two days later, he's gone.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.