All Quotes

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
‐‐ Damon Hill

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.
‐‐ Norman Fell

I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
‐‐ Gary Speed

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.
‐‐ Jesse Ball

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
‐‐ David Cassidy

I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
‐‐ Jack Bruce

I had a lot of what they call turntable hits. A lot of them.
‐‐ Eydie Gorme

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
‐‐ Pat Travers

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

I had a lovely time growing up.
‐‐ Michael Kiwanuka

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
‐‐ Robert Frost

I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
‐‐ Heather O'Neill

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
‐‐ Patrick Duffy

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
‐‐ Garth Risk Hallberg

I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
‐‐ Carly Simon

I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.
‐‐ Gareth Gates

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
‐‐ Chris Ware

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
‐‐ April Winchell

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.
‐‐ Bill Griffith

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
‐‐ Candice Millard

I had a moment where I realised I could do silly voices, that lots of people I knew couldn't do silly voices, and that thus I must be able to make money doing silly voices.
‐‐ Rob Brydon

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
‐‐ Amy Hempel

I had a mother that told me what to do all my life, and I traded that in for a wife. We got married two years out of high school which is not what you tell your kids to do, right?
‐‐ Rick Scott

I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.
‐‐ Sarah Gavron

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

I had a mouse in my apartment and I couldn't sleep for two nights. I hate mice. They move so fast.
‐‐ Matt Czuchry

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know a whole lot about it. It really scared me.
‐‐ Grant Hill

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

I had a mustache when I was 13.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
‐‐ John Lurie

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
‐‐ C. L. R. James