All Quotes

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley

I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
‐‐ Gail Collins

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
‐‐ Jason Mewes

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
‐‐ Tim Burton

I did some stage when I was a kid, around 16 or so. I was living in Melbourne and had a band. I was quite young. We weren't very good. Then I found a band in Perth. We played around for three years. We're in the 'History of Rock'N'Roll,' a book about Perth music.
‐‐ Paul Eenhoorn

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.
‐‐ Elle King

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
‐‐ Gaspard Ulliel

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started 'Homeland'.
‐‐ Morgan Saylor

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.
‐‐ Peter Uihlein

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
‐‐ Dustin Hoffman

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.
‐‐ Emmanuel Lubezki

I did 'Spanglish' and went back home, and the next thing I did was my high school play. My agents at the time were like, 'Uh. What?'
‐‐ Sarah Steele

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

I did spend much of my 20s sitting on a couch playing video games and ordering disgusting food.
‐‐ John Gemberling

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
‐‐ Dane Cook

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
‐‐ Samm Levine

I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.
‐‐ Kevin Durand

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
‐‐ Ariana Grande

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work.
‐‐ Ryan Stiles

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.
‐‐ Samuel West

I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
‐‐ Sara Shepard

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
‐‐ Sean Patrick Thomas

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.
‐‐ Rory Stewart

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
‐‐ Larry Hagman

I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I did take a huge leap moving countries. People have no idea how huge it is to relocate overseas. Finding your new life alone is enormous, and then starting a new career in Hollywood is so big.
‐‐ Nicky Whelan

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.
‐‐ John Carmack

I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.'
‐‐ Sheri Moon Zombie

I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't necessarily get along all that well sometimes. She's brilliant... but it's just because I don't like wearing tights that I put up a bit of a fight there, I think.
‐‐ Tom Weston-Jones

I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
‐‐ Rebecca Makkai

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
‐‐ Adam DeVine

I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that.
‐‐ Amanda Crew

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.
‐‐ Joseph Jackson

I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
‐‐ Linda Evangelista

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl