I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.
‐‐ Jamie Farr
I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.
‐‐ Persis Khambatta
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan
I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
‐‐ Adora Svitak
I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.
‐‐ Doris Eaton Travis
I was thrilled to play a role on 'Dora the Explorer,' a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I'm proud to now be a part of the show's ever-growing legacy.
‐‐ Thalia
I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'.
‐‐ Eric Idle
I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
‐‐ Anne Robinson
I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley
I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
‐‐ Lew Wasserman
I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
‐‐ Greg Grunberg
I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.
‐‐ Teresa Palmer
I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.
‐‐ Michael Stuhlbarg
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
‐‐ Emma Bonino
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
‐‐ Philippe Petit
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
‐‐ Kate Adie
I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.
‐‐ Alicia Keys
I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
‐‐ George McGovern
I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.
‐‐ Rod McKuen
I was tired of an outlaw's life.
‐‐ Frank James
I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.
‐‐ Richard MacDonald
I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.
‐‐ Donna Mills
I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.
‐‐ John C. Danforth
I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
‐‐ Kathie Lee Gifford
I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
‐‐ Michael Sims
I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling
I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.
‐‐ Brin-Jonathan Butler
I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.
‐‐ James Cromwell
I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick
I was told by my mother at the age of five that I was going to be a doctor, and that was the end of the conversation. I was presented with a toy stethoscope and told to learn how to use it.
‐‐ Chris Adrian
I was told by so many people that I wouldn't succeed because I was too different. Ironically, the very reason that people watch my channel and travel thousands of miles to see a show... is because it's different. God didn't send us to Earth to just blend in. We are here to share what makes us unique.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling
I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.
‐‐ Curt Flood
I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.
‐‐ Dan Webster
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
‐‐ Susan Sarandon
I was told I was fat in the modeling world, and a director on a shoot told me I needed to lose weight. The J-Lo booty wasn't popular then, and I wanted to be the perfect Hollywood girl - tall, blonde and skinny. I couldn't do the 'tall' because I was 5'2, and I couldn't do the skinny, either.
‐‐ Coco Austin
I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.
‐‐ John Dyer
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.
‐‐ Kirby Puckett
I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
‐‐ Jim Otto
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
‐‐ Lady Gregory
I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.
‐‐ Natasha Little
I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.
‐‐ Thalia
I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan
I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.
‐‐ Tonya Harding
I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
‐‐ Dustin Lynch
I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
‐‐ Yanis Varoufakis