All Quotes

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
‐‐ Bjork

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
‐‐ Iggy Azalea

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.
‐‐ Maximillian Degenerez

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
‐‐ Alain Resnais

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
‐‐ Christian Lacroix

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
‐‐ Florence Welch

I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me - inside - I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.
‐‐ Aron Ralston

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.
‐‐ Jock Stein

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
‐‐ Michael Moore

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
‐‐ Scott Stapp

I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
‐‐ Linda Lavin

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
‐‐ David Ogden Stiers

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
‐‐ Lee Pace

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
‐‐ Evan Dando

I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
‐‐ Michael Redhill

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
‐‐ Bobby Thomson

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
‐‐ Barney Ross

I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years.
‐‐ Katie Nolan

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
‐‐ Theodore White

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.
‐‐ Julianne Hough

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
‐‐ Jim Dale

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
‐‐ Barry Sheene

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
‐‐ George Herman

I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.
‐‐ Diego Maradona

I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.
‐‐ John Banville

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
‐‐ Cory Booker

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.
‐‐ Jonny Lee Miller

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.
‐‐ Rob Gronkowski

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.
‐‐ Jermaine Dupri

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
‐‐ Herb Ritts

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.
‐‐ Michael Imperioli

I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much saying is, 'We want a Caucasian guy or a black guy.' One or the other.
‐‐ Bronson Pelletier

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie