All Quotes

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
‐‐ Garry Shandling

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
‐‐ Ama Ata Aidoo

Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.
‐‐ Zeresenay Alemseged

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.
‐‐ Rick Riordan

Because I am married to a surgeon, I do Botox and I do some fillers. But I truly believe that the best beauty secret is happiness. I know that sounds sappy, but I'm just telling you it comes from the inside and spreads out. The happier and more satisfied you are living your life, the better you will look.
‐‐ Heather Dubrow

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
‐‐ Jade Jones

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
‐‐ Emma Tennant

Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.
‐‐ Stanley Ho

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
‐‐ Ayrton Senna

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.
‐‐ Phyllis Logan

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.
‐‐ Allison Anders

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
‐‐ Aaliyah

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
‐‐ Peter Blair Henry

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
‐‐ Nicole Trunfio

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
‐‐ John Dykstra

Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.
‐‐ David Holt

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
‐‐ Shane West

Because I could throw so hard when I got to college, they made me a pitcher. If I had to it all over again, I would have stuck to playing in the outfield. I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
‐‐ Katherine Parkinson

Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.
‐‐ Serinda Swan

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.
‐‐ Do Won Chang

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.
‐‐ Rose McGowan

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
‐‐ Steve Case

Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
‐‐ Chuck Mangione

Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
‐‐ Brett Hull

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.
‐‐ Jay Cutler

Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest.
‐‐ Hugh Dancy

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
‐‐ Tadanobu Asano

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.
‐‐ Elton John

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
‐‐ Patrick Modiano

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
‐‐ Ice T

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
‐‐ Terry Zwigoff

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.
‐‐ Ruben Studdard

Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.
‐‐ Christina Milian

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot.
‐‐ Cristela Alonzo