All Quotes

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
‐‐ Max Brooks

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
‐‐ John Wilmot

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'
‐‐ Rory MacLean

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.
‐‐ Jane Leeves

Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
‐‐ Taylor Negron

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.
‐‐ Justin Halpern

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
‐‐ Ariel Gore

Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.
‐‐ Michael Trucco

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
‐‐ Pat Benatar

Before I reached 10 years old, I knew I was going to be an artist.
‐‐ Howard Terpning

Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.
‐‐ Mark Indelicato

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.
‐‐ John Caudwell

Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.
‐‐ David Rakoff

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
‐‐ Joan Jett

Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?
‐‐ Eric Stoltz

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.
‐‐ Neal Shusterman

Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.
‐‐ Chang-Rae Lee

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
‐‐ Jennifer Pahlka

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
‐‐ Grace Hightower

Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to get back to that, but because of the time commitment to '30 Rock', there's not much time to do that stuff.
‐‐ Judah Friedlander

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
‐‐ Parminder Nagra

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
‐‐ Jean Pigozzi

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.
‐‐ Jacquelyn Jablonski

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
‐‐ Maria Monk

Before I turned 30, through a lot of hard work and support, I won many badminton titles. But after turning 30, Lin Dan should change that mindset and start in a new direction and do things that are more meaningful.
‐‐ Lin Dan

Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.
‐‐ Ricky Martin

Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'
‐‐ Jake Bugg

Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
‐‐ Yaya Han

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
‐‐ Martha Quinn

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
‐‐ Davy Jones

Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
‐‐ Maisie Williams