All Quotes

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
‐‐ Nelsan Ellis

I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
‐‐ Frances O'Connor

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
‐‐ Tom T. Hall

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
‐‐ Matthew Macfadyen

I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
‐‐ Daniel Everett

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.
‐‐ John le Carre

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something.
‐‐ Bel Powley

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.
‐‐ Michelle Gomez

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
‐‐ David Chang

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.
‐‐ Kevin Warsh

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I'd actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.
‐‐ Jean Alesi

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.
‐‐ David Walliams

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
‐‐ Gary Lineker

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
‐‐ Lalla Ward

I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
‐‐ Hermann Maier

I was quite naughty at school.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
‐‐ Kate Middleton

I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
‐‐ Allan Carr

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
‐‐ Rajiv Ouseph

I was quite shy.
‐‐ Sarah Burton

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.
‐‐ Emilia Fox

I was quite small as a kid and maybe a little afraid physically. When I grew into myself, the realisation changed. That when you hurt yourself, it's transient; it doesn't stay forever.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
‐‐ Bill Forsyth

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
‐‐ Mika

I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
‐‐ Henry Bessemer

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Luke Pasqualino

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.
‐‐ Jimmy Nail

I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
‐‐ Karen Finerman

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
‐‐ Abel Ferrara

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
‐‐ Louise Bourgeois

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
‐‐ Stephen Adly Guirgis

I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
‐‐ Ken Kesey

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
‐‐ Gary Johnson