Gene Hackman Quotes

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.

I've always lived all over the place, and left Manchester the minute I was old enough to steal a car.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I was never meant to sit at home.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

I was never meant to sit at home.

I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based in New York and country-hopping, so I was always 'the new girl'.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

Obviously, in different circumstances, I definitely related to this idea of feeling claustrophobic and wanting to discover things for yourself. I think that's something that all young people can relate to.

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.