All Quotes

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
‐‐ Beth Henley

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.
‐‐ Drew Carey

I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it.
‐‐ Atticus Shaffer

I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'
‐‐ James Tate

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.
‐‐ Danny Aiello

I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.
‐‐ Lynn Johnston

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.
‐‐ America Ferrera

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.
‐‐ Demi Lovato

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.
‐‐ Dwayne Hickman

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
‐‐ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
‐‐ Sally Mann

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
‐‐ Fred Ward

I was just taught very early that if I didn't solve problems, I was headed for a very dark path. Problems were everywhere. Now, even if there are no problems, I look for problems. I'm like, 'You know what? I don't like the way this spoon works. I want to design a new spoon.'
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
‐‐ Trevor Donovan

I was just that kid in the family that you put on the table and watch it dance around, and you're like, 'Oh, look at that hyper kid!'
‐‐ Rosa Salazar

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
‐‐ Verne Troyer

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.
‐‐ Caroline Rhea

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
‐‐ Laurence Housman

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
‐‐ John Travolta

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.
‐‐ Al Roker

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.
‐‐ Serena Williams

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
‐‐ Karen O

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.
‐‐ McKayla Maroney

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
‐‐ Jonny Greenwood

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
‐‐ Peter Matthiessen

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.
‐‐ Benmont Tench

I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of 'Singham,' I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.
‐‐ Rohit Shetty

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

I was keenly aware that everybody would have loved for me to do a close sequel or a spin-off to 'Marley and Me.'
‐‐ John Grogan

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.
‐‐ Grant Hill

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.
‐‐ Thelma Houston

I was kicked out of drama school in 1976, aged 18, for vandalising the headmistress's tyres, after being there for less than a year.
‐‐ Ray Winstone

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.
‐‐ Steve Sabol

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
‐‐ Mort Walker

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
‐‐ Nicole Beharie

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.
‐‐ Raina Telgemeier

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.
‐‐ Nina Dobrev

I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
‐‐ Sarah Hay

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.
‐‐ Jennifer Doudna