Quotes About Immersion

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

I feel more in touch with the world when I'm filming.

Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

The way you get to explore a city when you are on shoot is so different from when you are there as a tourist.

When I land in a new country, I'm a tourist. I can't become a local in one day.

It is very important for long tours to enjoy the country and see the places.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I love going into a country and just blending.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.