I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
‐‐ Patti Smith
I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood
I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you're talking to someone else.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin
I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.
‐‐ LeBron James
I was so used to seeing so many women in the media flaunting their bodies 4 weeks after having a baby - and kudos to those who have genes that they can get right back into shape 2 weeks, 4 weeks after having a baby. But that never happened to me, and I remember going to my doctor asking why.
‐‐ Tia Mowry
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
‐‐ Muddy Waters
I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.
‐‐ Michelle Kwan
I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
‐‐ Jeannette Walls
I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
‐‐ Nathan Parsons
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
‐‐ Natalie Wood
I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers
I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.
‐‐ Alison Moyet
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
‐‐ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.
‐‐ Julianne Moore
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.
‐‐ Luke Perry
I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
‐‐ Fritz Lang
I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.
‐‐ David Oyelowo
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
‐‐ Erno Rubik
I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
‐‐ Hugh Shelton
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
I was sort of a sissy as a little kid.
‐‐ Sanford I. Weill
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens
I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.
‐‐ Lucy Hale
I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
‐‐ Marc Newson
I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan
I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, 'I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer.' And I didn't sign my name.
‐‐ Steve Carell
I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people.
‐‐ Robert Wagner
I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.
‐‐ Dan Webster
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
‐‐ Adrian Lyne
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.
‐‐ Katherine Boo
I was spending most of my summers in Greece when I was a little girl, and at boarding school my first room-mate was Greek, so I guess I kind of had that Greek destiny.
‐‐ Marie-Chantal Claire
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
‐‐ Mel Gibson
I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.
‐‐ Judge Reinhold
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.
‐‐ Anthony Edwards
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.
‐‐ Orson Welles
I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.
‐‐ Shaun White
I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.
‐‐ Jacqueline McKenzie
I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
‐‐ Jenna Bush
I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
‐‐ Anne Tyler
I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
‐‐ Barney Ross
I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney
I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.
‐‐ Mike Nichols