Quotes About Adventure

My background is getting into the kinds of places where outsiders don't normally go, with enough energy left to put a line in the water.

One place that I have very strong memories of is the Congo. That's somewhere I've been to four times. It's not a place where normally outsiders go, which is what makes it very special.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

One of the things that has made America exceptional - compared to other crisis-prone and class-conflicted countries - is that it has long enjoyed a benefit no other modern nation in the world could claim: the ability to engage in ceaseless, endless movement outward.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Doing different things is great. It's always good to change things up. If you do the same thing over and over, it can get boring.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain.

I had a fear of heights but I overcame that while shooting for 'Luck.' I jumped from a height of 2,000 feet for one shot.

I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

I remember the first time that I flew on an airplane overseas, it was about when I was seven; it was 1969.

I think going overseas and experiencing a whole new culture is something you can't learn anywhere else.

London is one of my favourite places to come to overseas.

I spent years overseas. I spent 11 years abroad.

I've being doing some stuff overseas. I got the opportunity to go to New Japan a couple of times.

If I were to do something here in Australia that did travel overseas, for sure, I would like to work anywhere in the world.

The time that I spent overseas working as a model, all of those experiences influenced my personality and personal taste.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.