All Quotes

I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

I became a vegan, and I was getting bullied on Twitter about it.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
‐‐ Laura Mennell

I became a vegetarian at age 13 because I was into animal issues and felt like it was kinder not to eat animals.
‐‐ Sara Gilbert

I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a lot of detoxes. I was on the Body Ecology Diet before I got pregnant, which I believe is one of the reasons I was able to get pregnant.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
‐‐ Davey Havok

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
‐‐ Christopher Atkins

I became a victim of mean girls. I became the victim of myself.
‐‐ Tyra Banks

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
‐‐ Dave Pelzer

I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.
‐‐ Judah Friedlander

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
‐‐ Deb Caletti

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
‐‐ Beth Gutcheon

I became a writer in spite of my environments.
‐‐ Robert E. Howard

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.
‐‐ Helen Gahagan

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.
‐‐ Richard Roeper

I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And 'literary artist' - poet and novelist - is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
‐‐ Richard Ernst

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.
‐‐ Vivek Wadhwa

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
‐‐ Kelsey Grammer

I became an actor because I couldn't not.
‐‐ Debra Winger

I became an actor because I enjoy playing a variety of different people rather than playing one person for the rest of my career.
‐‐ Dominic Sherwood

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!
‐‐ Deborah Sampson

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

I became an actor when I was 22.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.
‐‐ Tisha Campbell-Martin

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.
‐‐ Michelle Gomez

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.
‐‐ Alyssa Sutherland

I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She's a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
‐‐ Robert Smith

I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
‐‐ Gary Numan

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.
‐‐ Jason O'Mara

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
‐‐ Len Wein

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
‐‐ Francis Collins

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
‐‐ James Howe

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
‐‐ Marcus Lemonis

I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
‐‐ Earl Weaver

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.
‐‐ James Rothman