I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.
‐‐ Billy Porter
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan
I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.
‐‐ Lucy Hale
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
‐‐ Robert Mundell
I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.
‐‐ Shirley Knight
I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.
‐‐ Dorothy McGuire
I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.
‐‐ Steve Carlton
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
‐‐ Carly Simon
I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
‐‐ Bubba Sparxxx
I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
‐‐ Matthew Moy
I took karate classes for a few years. Taekwondo. I'd love to do a movie role where I could do some karate.
‐‐ Heather Graham
I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
‐‐ Madeline Zima
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
‐‐ Bruce Dern
I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.
‐‐ Elle Varner
I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just take the bus when I was a kid and go. But I'd been writing music for years, since the smallest age.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
‐‐ Kit Williams
I took many trips down to New Orleans trying to experience the city as deeply as possible. I'm from Detroit so New Orleans seemed very exotic to me.
‐‐ Ruta Sepetys
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
‐‐ Mamie Van Doren
I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.
‐‐ Anna Popplewell
I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.
‐‐ Sophie Thompson
I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.
‐‐ Julie Doucet
I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.
‐‐ Esther Williams
I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.
‐‐ Kevin Hart
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.
‐‐ Christine Lakin
I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
‐‐ Paula McLain
I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger
I took my iPod to the Apple store here in Manhattan and asked them to replace the battery. And they explained to me that Apple does not offer a service to replace the battery in the iPod, and my best bet was to buy a new iPod.
‐‐ Casey Neistat
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
‐‐ Les Dawson
I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.
‐‐ Michael Keaton
I took my sight and mobility for granted.
‐‐ Sue Townsend
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards
I took my time to find the perfect girl.
‐‐ Joe Namath
I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.
‐‐ Shiri Appleby
I took my weight training to a new level.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte
I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany
I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on movie sets and was fascinated with the camera and behind-the-scenes work. I felt it would help my career as an actor if I knew all aspects of film.
‐‐ Devin Ratray
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson
I took on pension reform, health care reform, and leave reform - all of those tough issues that so many elected officials prefer to kick down the road to the next generation. But that's not who I am. I am not persuaded by what is politically popular but what is best for the citizens of Baltimore.
‐‐ Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
I took on the leader of the globalist agenda, the leader of the Republican Party, the Koch brothers.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
‐‐ Christine Keeler
I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.
‐‐ Timothy Simons
I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'
‐‐ Dennis Haysbert
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.
‐‐ Alex Winston
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.
‐‐ Cory Monteith
I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.
‐‐ Hilary Swank
I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.
‐‐ Dick York
I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend.
‐‐ Gina Bellman