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"Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia"

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Home, for Noah Taylor, isn’t a postcode so much as a mood: either the dense, human warmth of Italy or the radical privacy of Australia’s bush. The pairing is funny because it’s so extreme, but it also tracks with an actor’s life, which is built on borrowed rooms, temporary identities, and constant travel. When your day job is inhabiting other people, “home” starts to mean a place where you don’t have to perform.

Italy functions here as shorthand for lived-in culture: food, noise, ritual, the everyday theater of streets and cafes. It’s a place where belonging can be social, sensory, even indulgent without apology. The alternative he offers isn’t London or Los Angeles, the usual actor hubs, but “total wilderness” - a deliberate refusal of the industry’s default centers. That “or alternatively” does a lot of work: it makes the contradiction sound casual, like these are two neighboring options on the same menu, when they’re really opposite philosophies of living.

The subtext is a quiet critique of modern celebrity life: the middle ground is polluted. Cities become work sites; attention becomes an environment you can’t turn off. So you choose either a culture that holds you, or a landscape that erases you. Taylor’s phrasing is tellingly unromantic - “the bush,” not “paradise” - suggesting he’s not selling an aesthetic, he’s describing a need: either be deeply among people, or be unreachable.

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Taylor, Noah. (2026, January 15). Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/italy-is-definitely-where-i-feel-most-at-home-or-170172/

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Taylor, Noah. "Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/italy-is-definitely-where-i-feel-most-at-home-or-170172/.

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"Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/italy-is-definitely-where-i-feel-most-at-home-or-170172/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Noah Taylor (born September 4, 1969) is a Actor from Australia.

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