I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
‐‐ Gillian Anderson
I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.
‐‐ Roderick MacKinnon
I was a decent student but not a great student.
‐‐ Robert J. Fisher
I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.
‐‐ Anne Meara
I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh
I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
‐‐ Donald Trump
I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.
‐‐ James Garner
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
‐‐ Josephine Baker
I was a die-hard, obsessed fan of Michael Jordan. I'd take his posters with me to away meets, I'd walk out on the deck in my Air Jordans before I swam, I'd write 23 on my cap. I'm just a huge Jordan fan.
‐‐ Summer Sanders
I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.
‐‐ Brion James
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
‐‐ John Wells
I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.
‐‐ Adriana Barraza
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
‐‐ Roberto Cavalli
I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
‐‐ Aziz Ansari
I was a disinterested student.
‐‐ David Fincher
I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
‐‐ Manuel Moroun
I was a disruptive child.
‐‐ Allyson Felix
I was a dog groomer. I delivered radiators; I was a photography producer. I typed classified ads for many years. It was my longest term job - years of typing classified ads while I was in bands.
‐‐ Janet Weiss
I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.
‐‐ Katrina Bowden
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
‐‐ Rupert Graves
I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
‐‐ Jessica Pare
I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.
‐‐ Kel Mitchell
I was a drama major through college.
‐‐ Creed Bratton
I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
‐‐ Jam Master Jay
I was a drummer in a group called Three Plus. We were performing at a club in New York, and my mother signed me up for tap classes. I fell in love from the door... so you can blame it on my mother.
‐‐ Savion Glover
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund
I was a dummy in school.
‐‐ Alan Ladd
I was a dyslexic kid.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner
I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.
‐‐ Ken Bruen
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
‐‐ Graham Norton
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan
I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
‐‐ Tom Morello
I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'
‐‐ Toby Jones
I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins
I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
‐‐ Halsey
I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare
I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
‐‐ Karl Urban
I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
‐‐ Grace Paley
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
‐‐ Donatella Versace
I was a fashion assistant. I bought the fabric. I made sure that everything was smooth in the workroom. And I scrambled all over London on the Tube looking for buttons. It was great.
‐‐ Jaye Davidson
I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles
I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
‐‐ Andre Rieu
I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
‐‐ Alber Elbaz
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.
‐‐ Sara Bareilles