Ashley Roberts Quotes

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

I moved to New York in 2003 with about $100 bucks in my pocket and a suitcase.

My mum knew if I got out of Kolkata, I wouldn't return. So she made me sit for the entrance of St Xavier's. But once I set foot in Delhi, there was no returning.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

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 was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

I wasn't upset to leave Los Angeles.

By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I kept it a secret wish. It was easier done than said. It wasn't only that I wanted to leave Chicago - I wanted to live in New York City. And I did - for a time.

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

I moved to Shaker Heights from Pittsburgh, PA, just before I turned 10.