I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.
‐‐ Ben Harney
I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine
I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
‐‐ Naturi Naughton
I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai
I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.
‐‐ Temple Grandin
I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay
I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron
I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein
I was exposed to jazz early on.
‐‐ Mark White
I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles Davis, Sly Stone and David Bowie.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
‐‐ Marisa Tomei
I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.
‐‐ Donna Leon
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
‐‐ Edward Weston
I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
‐‐ Pink
I was extremely aggressive from the start.
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi
I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.
‐‐ Linda Cardellini
I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.
‐‐ Brit Morin
I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.
‐‐ Peter Beard
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
‐‐ Edmund Hillary
I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer
I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.
‐‐ Anupam Kher
I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
‐‐ Dan Farmer
I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
‐‐ Foxy Brown
I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
‐‐ Tasha Smith
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
‐‐ John Leguizamo
I was famous from birth.
‐‐ Peter Fonda
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman
I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
‐‐ Sting
I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.
‐‐ Polly Bergen
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
‐‐ Billy Corgan
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar
I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
‐‐ Bjorn Borg
I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.
‐‐ Tabare Vazquez
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
‐‐ Laura Amy Schlitz
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
‐‐ Caitlin Doughty
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
‐‐ Jean Paul Gaultier
I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark
I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.
‐‐ Laurie Graham
I was fascinated by 'The Lord of the Rings' from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
‐‐ Philip Reeve
I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
I was fascinated that everybody in the story thinks that they're in the right.
‐‐ Andrew McCarthy
I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
‐‐ Jack Dorsey
I was fascinated with optical illusions.
‐‐ Temple Grandin
I was fascinated with the phone system and how it worked; I became a hacker to get better control over the phone company.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick