Rachel Khoo Quotes

I lived in Paris for about nine months. It was an experience.

I'm a city girl from Seoul City, where I grew up, to Tokyo & Paris.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

I moved to L.A. in 2007 from Sweden.

Everything has changed since I came to China.

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

I have an affinity with Algeria, because I grew up with plenty of Algerian friends in the suburbs of Paris.

But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn't do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn't speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.

I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in the bar where we were was doing covers of our songs. I don't think they understood a word they were singing but they did the songs perfectly.

I'm on the right track to completely adapting to England.

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.