All Quotes

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.
‐‐ David Sedaris

Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

Because I've always had a strong personality, I've always thought I knew what was best.
‐‐ Nell Carter

Because I've been a full professor doing research and lecturing at the University of California, I didn't have a lot of time to write, so I have always used my unconscious a great deal to do the really heavy lifting.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.
‐‐ Lulu

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.
‐‐ Rachel Hunter

Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.
‐‐ Julia Child

Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
‐‐ Maggie Cheung

Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.
‐‐ Amy Acker

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'
‐‐ Deborah Mailman

Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
‐‐ Poe Ballantine

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
‐‐ Michael Jackson

Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
‐‐ Estella Warren

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.
‐‐ Sharon Lawrence

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
‐‐ Garry Trudeau

Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
‐‐ Catherine Tate

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
‐‐ Sally Ride

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
‐‐ Camilla Belle

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
‐‐ Rafe Spall

Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't have any servants.
‐‐ Charles Nelson Reilly

Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
‐‐ Idris Elba

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.
‐‐ Jean Reno

Because I was crazy and because my parents wanted me out of their hair, they put me in an all-day acting class... so they wouldn't have to deal with me, probably. And it just so happened there agents auditing the class, and I ended up getting signed.
‐‐ Liana Liberato

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
‐‐ Anita Hill

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
‐‐ Laila Robins

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
‐‐ Jermaine Dupri

Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
‐‐ Ava Gardner

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
‐‐ Burt Bacharach

Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
‐‐ Paloma Picasso

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
‐‐ Rosanne Cash

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
‐‐ Rick Derringer

Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
‐‐ Bono

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.
‐‐ Carol Alt