All Quotes

I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
‐‐ Felicia Day

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.
‐‐ Tom Bissell

I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
‐‐ Sally Field

I'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
‐‐ Liz Murray

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
‐‐ Brian Eno

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
‐‐ Edward Burns

I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
‐‐ Felicia Day

I'd been on 'SVU' before and I'd been on 'Criminal Intent,' but I wasn't a follower. Like, my mom watches every episode, even before I was on it.
‐‐ Kelli Giddish

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.
‐‐ Jay Samit

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
‐‐ Nia Vardalos

I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
‐‐ Olga Korbut

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
‐‐ Bryan Adams

I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
‐‐ Calvin Harris

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.
‐‐ Brenda Fassie

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
‐‐ Emily Mortimer

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
‐‐ Scott Anderson

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
‐‐ Elvis Costello

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
‐‐ Sam Riley

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
‐‐ Feist

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
‐‐ Sean Bean

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
‐‐ Marie Windsor

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I'd been wanting to work with James McAvoy since I was in drama school. I suppose there are parallels in that we're Scottish, we went to the same drama school and share the same agent, but aside from that, he's someone I've looked up to.
‐‐ Emun Elliott

I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.
‐‐ Anderson Paak

I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
‐‐ Chester Brown

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
‐‐ Xander Berkeley

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.
‐‐ John Goodman

I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody.
‐‐ Drew Carey

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
‐‐ Taylor Momsen

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.
‐‐ Chris Benz

I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
‐‐ Zayn Malik

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
‐‐ Jason Clarke