George Lucas Quotes

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

The only time I used to feel like an outsider was when I first went to India.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.

I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don't get that.

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

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

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

My father sort of relented. He saw Rajiv, and he said he is a good man. But his more worried about his daughter, because I was going far to a place completely different... with completely different customs. He felt that perhaps I would not be able to accustom to these new ways.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

I think I have improved a lot since I arrived in England.

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.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

It's been a bit of a struggle getting used to life in the States, adapting to a new lifestyle.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

When I came to England, everyone told me that I'd get the hits, so I was prepared for that.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

It is not easy to arrive in a different country and adapt quickly, but I think I'm getting there, and I'm proud of that.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.