All Quotes

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.
‐‐ Julie Christie

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.
‐‐ Michael Owen

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.
‐‐ Brian Setzer

I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
‐‐ Natalie MacMaster

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.
‐‐ Marc Rich

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
‐‐ Robin Williams

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
‐‐ Pauly D

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.
‐‐ Susanna Hoffs

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.
‐‐ Heather Graham

I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann

I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There's not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I'm still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.
‐‐ Trey Burke

I basically use Facebook and Twitter and MySpace to communicate with the fans. I don't think it's necessarily about advancing my career, but I do want to be able to connect with my fans. They are so important to me, and a lot of them have stuck with me since the very beginning, and that means so much to me.
‐‐ Maiara Walsh

I basically walked around with a goiter for four years because I was so afraid of surgery.
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

I basically was a precocious little kid.
‐‐ Michael Ironside

I basically was in charge of the Jackson 5 - all their creative, when it came down to the studio, and all their musical endeavors.
‐‐ Deke Richards

I basically watch videos online all day long.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.
‐‐ Tim Berners-Lee

I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn't know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn't happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.
‐‐ Boman Irani

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
‐‐ Bette Midler

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
‐‐ Pierre Trudeau

I beat a brain tumor.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
‐‐ Chloe Grace Moretz

I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.
‐‐ Camilo Villegas

I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
‐‐ Patrick Stewart

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

I became a Catholic against my will.
‐‐ Shusaku Endo

I became a children's author by accident.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

I became a Christian at age 4. I turned from my wicked ways and decided to walk the straight and narrow - but seriously, I actually remember coming to the Lord then and starting my long walk with Him.
‐‐ David A. R. White

I became a Christian because I met God.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
‐‐ Francine Rivers

I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. 'Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.'
‐‐ Scott Derrickson

I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
‐‐ Karen Morley

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
‐‐ Fidel Castro

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
‐‐ James Herriot

I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

I became a country music fan in 1990 when I moved to Colorado. It was my first exposure to it because I'm from a city. I've been a fan of country music ever since.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson