Quotes About Adventure

I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time you start.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

A whole new world of taste opened up to me and I put on at last one dress size, if not two during my 12 weeks on the Black Prince.

I wholeheartedly believe that super heroes can play in virtually any storytelling genre.

My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.

Ultimately, whenever you have a new opportunity, do it with gusto and fun and be wholly indifferent to what other people think.

I think it's really important for people to have a passion... a hobby... riding horses or climbing or riding motorcycles or whatever it is. It's very good for the soul. And if you can find a soulmate with whom you can share similar experiences with... one who enjoys them as much as you do, then it's kind of a match made in heaven really.

I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan's war books. As to favorite character: I'm torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo.

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom I now counted as my friends would have otherwise passed by, invisible.

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth.

As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.

I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

The thing I always liked about 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' was Pee-wee's, obviously, an oddball, but nobody in that universe points a finger at him and goes, 'Look at the weirdo!' I think that's why weirdo, arty kids like it so much: because it's sort of like a utopia.

I say, 'Why not' to everything.

Not everyone is comfortable moving from home. If you're ready to play abroad and you believe in yourself, why not?

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I've been so unlucky with dates for myself. So why not have someone else pick them for me?

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?

The two questions I always ask myself are 'What if' and 'Why not?

If there are any offers, opportunities to work abroad in the U.S., then why not? I'll definitely try that out.