Oliver Burke Quotes

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

I'm from the Philippines and I moved to this country when I was 16.

When I started going to school, I started getting used to things, like the language. After that, I started adapting to school, friends, and everything. It was really difficult, to start with, but I survived.

Moving to Liverpool was a new world for me. I had been living with my parents in Holland, and all of a sudden I was living in a foreign country on my own.

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

The first few months in a new country are always really hard.

With every project, I have to grow.

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

I want to continue to grow, and as long as I keep going out there doing what I'm doing and don't fall off from what I've learned already as they keep adding things on, I'll be fine.

Since I started my career very early, I have gone through the rigmarole of experiencing successes and failures.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

There are a lot of things that you learn as a rookie and you grow the most, I would say as a rookie from your first year to your second year.

It is not always easy to change country.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.

I left for Chelsea to learn new things, at a new club with new players.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

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 came to America when I was 7.

I think every new player needs time when they come to a new club and a new country, and I certainly did.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

There are times where fans don't understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, 'We like the way you used to be.' Or they say, 'We liked what you did then.' You can't stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It's something The Undertaker laid on me.

People don't even know how hard it is to play in China. People think it is easy for the foreign players, but it is really not. It's difficult.