All Quotes

I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
‐‐ Nick McDonell

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.
‐‐ Brett Favre

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis in the past.
‐‐ Juliet Aubrey

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'
‐‐ Jason Ritter

I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.
‐‐ Keith Belling

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
‐‐ Annette Bening

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
‐‐ Ferid Murad

I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'
‐‐ Alexander Chee

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
‐‐ John Hurt

I knew I wanted to act when I was around 14.
‐‐ Daniel Stern

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.
‐‐ Mike Myers

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.
‐‐ David Talbot

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.
‐‐ Amy Adams

I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn't know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge a go to see if I could do both, but it was only ever a trial.
‐‐ Alistair Brownlee

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three.
‐‐ Pixie Lott

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.
‐‐ Joshua Malina

I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.
‐‐ Jake Johnson

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
‐‐ Hugh Dancy

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.
‐‐ Dee Wallace

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 13.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.
‐‐ AnnaLynne McCord

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
‐‐ Hedda Sterne

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
‐‐ Kara Walker

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of the mirror and being silly, then suddenly I started making songs.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.
‐‐ Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha

I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
‐‐ Conrad Sewell

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey

I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn't want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.
‐‐ Mili Avital

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
‐‐ David Byrne

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
‐‐ Nancy Allen

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
‐‐ Johnny Cash

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
‐‐ Steven Pressfield

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck