All Quotes

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.
‐‐ Erin Heatherton

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
‐‐ Tanc Sade

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.
‐‐ Tito Vilanova

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
‐‐ Mordecai Richler

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.
‐‐ Dennis Franz

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
‐‐ Craig Charles

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.
‐‐ John Collison

Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.
‐‐ French Montana

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.
‐‐ Austin Mahone

Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

Coming from New Zealand, all the music I listen to is not made by New Zealanders. People never come to New Zealand to play a show because it's in the middle of nowhere.
‐‐ Lorde

Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.
‐‐ Jay Ryan

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.
‐‐ Brenda Song

Coming from the industry and maintaining contacts with producers and directors, I am very well aware that costs associated with movie production are a major factor in determining where films get made.
‐‐ James Costos

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo

Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.
‐‐ Carmen Ejogo

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
‐‐ Jacqueline McKenzie

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
‐‐ Deanna Dunagan

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.
‐‐ Shania Twain

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
‐‐ Edie Falco

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
‐‐ Carlos Ponce

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.
‐‐ Howard Bach

Coming in here and having fun with the guys, loving everyone, playing this game - it's a lot of fun.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
‐‐ John Masefield

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry

Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

Coming into my second year, my main thing is to show growth - show that I can be consistent and play at a high level all the time.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.
‐‐ Gil Kane

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
‐‐ Kelly Rowland

Coming off a show like 'Lost,' there were other offers, but it was difficult to get excited about anything because 'Lost' was such a great piece of writing and such a hit show.
‐‐ Henry Ian Cusick

Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
‐‐ Josh Gad

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
‐‐ Jane Rule

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
‐‐ Deborah Kass

Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
‐‐ Lance Loud

Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
‐‐ Lance Loud

Coming out is the most political thing you can do.
‐‐ Harvey Milk

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.
‐‐ Jeremy Lin

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
‐‐ Bryan Cogman