All Quotes

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.
‐‐ Ray Bolger

I became a dancer late and an actor late.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
‐‐ Ann Demeulemeester

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.
‐‐ Cynthia Erivo

I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.
‐‐ Maripol

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
‐‐ Anne Enright

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
‐‐ Gary Miller

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
‐‐ Sandy Koufax

I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
‐‐ Nancy A. Collins

I became a human placebo.
‐‐ Bobby Sherman

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
‐‐ Henry R. Luce

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.
‐‐ John Milius

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
‐‐ Adam Ant

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
‐‐ Dale T. Mortensen

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

I became a minister of the Eucharist when I was 17. My parents aren't very strict Catholics, but for some reason I decided this is what I want to do, and I have kept it up.
‐‐ Sarah Bolger

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
‐‐ Tori Amos

I became a musician because I love music, and that is what has sustained me; it's not because I thought it was a great way to make a living. Music saved my life.
‐‐ David Sanborn

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
‐‐ Norah Jones

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
‐‐ James Nachtwey

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
‐‐ Esther Dyson

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.
‐‐ Renny Harlin

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.
‐‐ Heather Wilson

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
‐‐ Ed Rollins

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
‐‐ Ben Okri

I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I became a set designer for opera.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.
‐‐ Lauren Hutton