All Quotes

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'
‐‐ Georgia Jagger

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
‐‐ Rory Kinnear

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
‐‐ Damian Woetzel

When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
‐‐ Peter Sis

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
‐‐ Ron White

When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.
‐‐ Brandon Jennings

When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
‐‐ Narciso Rodriguez

When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
‐‐ Victor Salva

When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
‐‐ David Mitchell

When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
‐‐ Maude Adams

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career.
‐‐ Tommy Kirk

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.
‐‐ Tora Berger

When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.
‐‐ David Blaine

When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's pompadour. I said, 'What are you talking about? You mean the guy from 'Hart to Hart?'
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

When I was about 3 months pregnant, I was running, looked down, and there was blood everywhere. I totally freaked out, but the doctor said everything was okay, except that I had to stop running.
‐‐ Amy Locane

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
‐‐ Keira Knightley

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'
‐‐ Luke Treadaway

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wilson

When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown.
‐‐ Eva Vertes

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
‐‐ Margaret Walker

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.
‐‐ Nick Earls

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.
‐‐ Rose McIver

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
‐‐ Bethany Hamilton

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'
‐‐ Heber J. Grant

When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
‐‐ Zachary Gordon

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
‐‐ Zara Larsson

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

When I was about seven, I remember spending a lot of time in my parents' wardrobe trying on their bespoke suits.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!
‐‐ Diane Lane

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
‐‐ John Berger

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.
‐‐ Levi Miller

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.
‐‐ Konrad Lorenz

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'
‐‐ James Dobson

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
‐‐ Alan Alda

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
‐‐ Roger Bannister