“You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.”
Home is more than an address. These quotes explore belonging, comfort, rootedness, and the feeling of being in the one place where you can be completely yourself. Some are about houses; most are about something less tangible.
“I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.”
“You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.”
“When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.”
“From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.”
“Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.”
“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.”
“As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.”
“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.”
“When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.”
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”
“I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.”
“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
“In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.”
“I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.”
“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.”
“I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.”