John Lithgow Quotes

My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

My dad didn't like staying in one place, so we moved around every year - to a new house, new town, new country.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. I changed schools eight or nine times.

I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.

I feel like an alien sometimes, where I don't feel like I belong anywhere.

I am a Maharashtrian but was not brought up in Maharashtra, as my father worked in CPWD and was transferred every two years. So I have always been a gypsy. I, therefore, could not make good friends, and it still takes me a long time to form attachments.

I had trouble making friends because we moved around so much.

I had moved around my whole life. That was the one thing that was always so hard.

I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere. When I was still very young, my father told me: 'Look, we will always have to move, again and again.' I thought that was marvelous! That's how I got used to thinking that life meant starting from scratch, over and over again.

I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.