James D'arcy Quotes

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the things about teaching abroad.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

When I was young, I went to the Sinai and worked as a waitress.

I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo.

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.

I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the easy option. I love Spain and go quite regularly. I've done a bit of Spanish theatre.

I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.

If one day I start thinking about playing abroad, money won't be the reason.

I never thought I'd play basketball in China.

I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.

If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.

My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners.

I've worked around the world.

It's not just about going to play football abroad: it's a chance to live and work in a fantastic city like Barcelona.

If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits - they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.