All Quotes

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I didn't have my first car until after the end of my senior year. I got a Yukon Sport.
‐‐ Tim Duncan

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
‐‐ Brent Runyon

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
‐‐ Eminem

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.
‐‐ John Lone

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
‐‐ Molly Ringwald

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
‐‐ Anthony Browne

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.
‐‐ Michael Schumacher

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
‐‐ Dylan O'Brien

I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
‐‐ Dan Hill

I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was.
‐‐ Aya Cash

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.
‐‐ Michael Chang

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.
‐‐ Rodney Alexander

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone

I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
‐‐ James Burrows

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
‐‐ Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I didn't have the greatest ride on 'SNL,' but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn't feel totally accepted.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.
‐‐ Neil Jackson

I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

I didn't have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
‐‐ Martina Hingis

I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.
‐‐ Bob Kane

I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
‐‐ Bahman Ghobadi

I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.
‐‐ Brian Cox

I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.
‐‐ John Hughes

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
‐‐ Carroll Shelby

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
‐‐ Cheryl Lynn

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
‐‐ Sharon Olds

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.
‐‐ Casey Affleck

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
‐‐ Len Cariou

I didn't have to learn Selma to make 'Selma.' I didn't have to research what kind of place this is. The people I love most in the world live in that part of the country.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
‐‐ Tom Jones

I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.
‐‐ Eva Herzigova

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
‐‐ Payne Stewart

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I didn't hold back.
‐‐ Sarah Hughes

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
‐‐ Timothy Olyphant