All Quotes

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
‐‐ B. B. King

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

I was a regular on 'Holby City,' and I did daytime; that's how I started off. Off in Hong Kong doing stuntman stuff, then coming back to England doing daytime soap operas.
‐‐ Scott Adkins

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.
‐‐ Joel Benenson

I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore. I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.
‐‐ Tom Metzger

I was a Rosie the Riveter. I'm really proud of that.
‐‐ Ruth Duccini

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
‐‐ Louis Zamperini

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
‐‐ Elinor Lipman

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.
‐‐ Louise Bourgeois

I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.
‐‐ Bob Seger

I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.
‐‐ Lizzy Caplan

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
‐‐ Keith Moon

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya.
‐‐ Don Winslow

I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
‐‐ Haskell Wexler

I was a salsa dancer for the majority of my life, from, like, 7 to 17, and did the World Salsa Congresses. I realized that I wanted to continue obviously to be a performer. But in my household, being an actor and jumping into acting is not really accepted.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
‐‐ Scott Caan

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
‐‐ Kate Moss

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
‐‐ Bobby Vinton

I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job.
‐‐ Diplo

I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.
‐‐ Lou Henry Hoover

I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prestige,' the story for 'Memento.'
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.
‐‐ Rob Morrow

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
‐‐ Ira Glass

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
‐‐ F. Sionil Jose

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I was a sensitive boy.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was a serial monogamist.
‐‐ Seth Berkley

I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.
‐‐ Christian Serratos

I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So, I am the fastest cook in the world.
‐‐ Sharon Stone

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers.
‐‐ Mika

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
‐‐ Chris Pine

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
‐‐ Nicole Scherzinger

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
‐‐ Patti LaBelle