All Quotes

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
‐‐ Sean Hayes

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
‐‐ Ted Kotcheff

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.'
‐‐ Sean Maher

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
‐‐ Russell Hoban

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
‐‐ Herbie Mann

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
‐‐ David Copperfield

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
‐‐ Hank Sauer

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.
‐‐ Howard Finster

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
‐‐ Allen West

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
‐‐ Marat Safin

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
‐‐ Bernhard Langer

But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
‐‐ Edgar Winter

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.
‐‐ Coolio

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.
‐‐ Lita Ford

But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities and thousands and thousands of people come out.
‐‐ Louis Farrakhan

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
‐‐ Charles Barkley

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
‐‐ Bryan Ferry

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.
‐‐ Juan Marichal

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
‐‐ Adrienne Barbeau

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
‐‐ Theodore Bikel

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
‐‐ Jon Ronson

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
‐‐ Alan Shepard

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
‐‐ Frank Langella

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
‐‐ Sally Ride

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
‐‐ Little Richard

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
‐‐ Robert Jay Lifton

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
‐‐ Roy Lichtenstein

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Cheryl Tiegs

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
‐‐ Thomas Reid

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
‐‐ George C. Scott

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
‐‐ Edie Brickell

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
‐‐ Nastassja Kinski

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
‐‐ Jim Wallis

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
‐‐ Karl Lehmann

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
‐‐ Barney Frank

But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
‐‐ Stephan Jenkins

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
‐‐ Murray Gell-Mann

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
‐‐ James Wolfensohn