I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
‐‐ Analeigh Tipton
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
‐‐ Shirley Knight
I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
‐‐ FKA twigs
I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.
‐‐ James Vincent McMorrow
I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.
‐‐ Brian Baumgartner
I moved to Los Angeles to be with a man I loved.
‐‐ Cat Power
I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.
‐‐ Alexandra Shipp
I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.
‐‐ Connor Franta
I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.
‐‐ Luke Bracey
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
‐‐ Carl Spitteler
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.
‐‐ Laura Prepon
I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
‐‐ Rodney Brooks
I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.
‐‐ Blake Shelton
I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.
‐‐ Casey Nicholaw
I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
‐‐ Teri Polo
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare
I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.
‐‐ Casey Neistat
I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.
‐‐ Kumail Nanjiani
I moved to New York for love, and it was a disaster, in 2000. And then I had American friends who had lived in South Africa, and they were in Chicago. They said, 'Come and spend some time with us, and we'll help you get over it.'
‐‐ Lauren Beukes
I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow
I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
‐‐ Utkarsh Ambudkar
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.
‐‐ David Costabile
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz
I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.
‐‐ Steve Zahn
I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin
I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south.
‐‐ Stark Sands
I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
‐‐ David LaChapelle
I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.
‐‐ Dreama Walker
I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.
‐‐ Scott Westerfeld
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
‐‐ Daniel Gillies
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
‐‐ Orville Redenbacher
I moved to San Francisco to work at Apple's Cupertino office in the summer of 2006, then stayed on remotely in a part-time job back in Austin. It was an internship with iTunes. I helped them launch new features as well as new marketing programs. I also helped program the iTunes Store every week, working on which artists and albums got featured.
‐‐ Brit Morin
I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.
‐‐ Brit Morin
I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.
‐‐ Alexis Denisof
I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
‐‐ Gregory Corso
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
‐‐ Haley Lu Richardson
I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.
‐‐ Thomas Ian Nicholas
I mow my own lawn.
‐‐ Ron Reagan
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
‐‐ Plautus
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
‐‐ Ronny Cox
I much prefer STEAM to STEM. The insertion of the A is arts writ large, and when you learn how to think, that means that you actually need to understand how others have thought before you, how have others made sense of the world.
‐‐ Laurene Powell Jobs
I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz
I much prefer the modern world.
‐‐ Keith Henson
I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.
‐‐ Stephen Stills
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
‐‐ Johannes Kepler