All Quotes

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.
‐‐ America Ferrera

I was an opening act for 10 years.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
‐‐ George Galloway

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
‐‐ Jude Law

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
‐‐ Mamie Gummer

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
‐‐ Al Lewis

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his great Sun records with Scotty Moore on electric guitar and Bill Black on bass.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.
‐‐ Eli Wallach

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not good news if you lived right in the middle of it.
‐‐ Del Shannon

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
‐‐ Hallie Ephron

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

I was an overnight sensation.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his weight, too. We would go for a ride on his motorcycle on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make pizza together, or go get ice cream. I quickly learned that food equalled love and attention.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
‐‐ Judith R. Faulkner

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
‐‐ Alonzo Church

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.
‐‐ Robert Webb

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
‐‐ Alex Graves

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
‐‐ Rick James

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
‐‐ Jean O'Leary

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt

I was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court and by President Obama to the district court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In securing the state court appointment, I think it really helped that I had some trial experience.
‐‐ Jacqueline Nguyen

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
‐‐ Rita Dove

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
‐‐ Chris Christie

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
‐‐ Rita Dove

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
‐‐ Damon Albarn

I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
‐‐ Candace Kita

I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.
‐‐ Trini Lopez

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis

I was around a lot of gospel as a kid.
‐‐ John Legend

I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.'
‐‐ Don McLean

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.
‐‐ Eskinder Nega

I was arrested three times and tortured once.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
‐‐ Marc Wallice