All Quotes

I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.
‐‐ Stan Getz

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
‐‐ French Montana

I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it took away my ability to sing with a range because it paralyzed my vocal chords, so that was when I started playing. But I hear the music as if I were singing even when I am playing.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.
‐‐ Prabal Gurung

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.
‐‐ Joe Shuster

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
‐‐ Rachelle Lefevre

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
‐‐ Jill Clayburgh

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.
‐‐ Daniel Wu

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
‐‐ Jim Brown

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
‐‐ Theodore C. Sorensen

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
‐‐ Pam Grier

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
‐‐ Jason Wu

I came from rather humble beginnings.
‐‐ Teresa Palmer

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
‐‐ Roger Bannister

I came from Texas, I was studying theater at NYU, and I thought for sure that my lot in life would be to get the best bartending job I could find and do theater in New York. And that was a good life.
‐‐ James Roday

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.
‐‐ Jennifer Lopez

I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights.
‐‐ John Hunter

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
‐‐ Taran Killam

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
‐‐ Sonia Johnson

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.
‐‐ Lesley Ann Warren

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
‐‐ Desiigner

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
‐‐ Mira Nair

I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
‐‐ Common

I came from the South with a mother who was hard working, so I love going to work every day.
‐‐ Kenny Leon

I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.
‐‐ Freddy Rodriguez

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
‐‐ Frances Fisher

I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.
‐‐ Denise Mina

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
‐‐ Imre Kertesz

I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
‐‐ Gerry Schwartz

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
‐‐ Larry Kramer

I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.
‐‐ Howard Finster

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
‐‐ Richard Cobden

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bit for a few years. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be good-looking. I wanted to be popular. I spent a lot of time thinking, 'What are these people going to think of me?'
‐‐ Sebastian Stan

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.
‐‐ Chazz Palminteri

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.
‐‐ Greg Walden

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
‐‐ Oliver North

I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.
‐‐ Naeem Khan

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.
‐‐ Roselyn Sanchez