Relocating Quotes

I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.

I'd never thought about living in London until about 1999.

I went to something like six different schools before the age of 12, so I was always the new girl and had to make friends quickly. It was difficult at the start because I was very bookish - I was literally sat in the corner reading books, with no friends.

Doing theatre in Delhi didn't guarantee success in Mumbai.

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

I probably have to move out of New York. I just can’t live in New York anymore.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational.

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That led to guest appearances at bars, which led to regular appearances at bars, which led to hosting. I eventually started working six days a week in bars before moving to N.Y.C.

Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.

I love London, but I love traveling, and I don't think I'll be here forever. Possibly, I'd like to move to New York and do a play in New York.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

New York is my favorite city. I would love to move there one day.

New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.

Everybody has to go through a struggle period, and I was no different. When I came to Mumbai from Delhi, I didn't know anybody, and all my relationships had to be built up from scratch, including my work relationships.