Quotes About Familiarity

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

I used to buy things for every hotel room or every place I lived in to make it feel like home.

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

I am definitely not a household face, and I don't expect to be one.

I have worked with other production houses, but Balaji feels like homecoming.

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.

To know exactly what I wanted to hear in those notes, to woo me back to her, even to predict all my wrong moves … the woman knew me cold. Better than anyone in the world, she knew me. All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood.

Well, a little girl is more likely to trust a person who reminds her of her momma, right?" Depends on what her momma's like, I thought.

This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

In a crisis perhaps it is old clichés one clings to, like a child to a parent.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

One can go back to one's own home after a year's absence and immediately the door closes it is as if one had never been away. Or one can go back after a few hours and everything is so changed that one is a stranger.

The first day one watches to see whether a routine will emerge: it is a routine that makes home.

You know, if you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

I feel the sexiest in my husband's t-shirts, especially after he's worn it all day.

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That's what I wanted for 'Torn.'

For me personally to come back to Toronto, I lived here for three years. I always love coming back here.