All Quotes

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.
‐‐ Erich Bergen

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly.
‐‐ Dev Hynes

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.
‐‐ Moby

A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.
‐‐ Mike Posner

A lot of my girlfriends are always telling me they're really strong independent women, but they've got their boy on the side, and they only go over when he calls.
‐‐ Estelle

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
‐‐ Michael Showalter

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.
‐‐ David Talbot

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.
‐‐ Shari Sebbens

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
‐‐ Dan Gable

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
‐‐ Sally Kirkland

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
‐‐ Matt Berninger

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

A lot of my material was based on my family.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.
‐‐ Luke Treadaway

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
‐‐ Norah Jones

A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
‐‐ Taylor Hicks

A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
‐‐ Blake Anderson

A lot of my past is gone from my mind.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.
‐‐ Jason Wu

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
‐‐ Billy Collins

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
‐‐ Roger Moore

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.
‐‐ Eminem

A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
‐‐ Natasha Bedingfield

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
‐‐ Stan Sakai

A lot of my struggles with nutrition date back to my swimming days. I was a super-skinny young girl who would go through hours of intense training. Afterward, I'd be famished, but I had a two-hour trip home before dinner. When I did my hardest workouts, I often ate less; I was too tired to think about food.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.
‐‐ Jonathan Rhys Meyers

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
‐‐ Jan Koum

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
‐‐ John Hodgman

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
‐‐ Felicity Jones

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.
‐‐ Ryan White

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
‐‐ Laila Robins