I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

I like being around people.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.