Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

I've lived a lot since I was 16, so I've got more things to write about. I've started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who've taught me lots of things.

I've been things and seen places.

I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.