All Quotes

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.
‐‐ Ellen Page

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.
‐‐ Mary Roach

I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.
‐‐ Morrissey

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
‐‐ Alan Moore

I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
‐‐ Margaret Keane

I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.
‐‐ Dennis Crowley

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons

I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in seventh or eighth grade, maybe my first year of high school, and by that time I'd probably seen 'Grease' twice a year every year of my life.
‐‐ Thomas Kail

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.
‐‐ Jessie Mueller

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.
‐‐ Jello Biafra

I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.
‐‐ Christine Woods

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
‐‐ Phil Foglio

I didn't really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.
‐‐ Richard Madden

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
‐‐ Lars Mikkelsen

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.
‐‐ Katharine Graham

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

I didn't really want to be a comedian.
‐‐ Allan Carr

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.
‐‐ Tom Waits

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
‐‐ Vicente del Bosque

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
‐‐ Lawrence Kasdan

I didn't really want to give up music.
‐‐ Bryan Ferry

I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at the time about Jay and Conan, and I hate doing anything serious.
‐‐ Norm MacDonald

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.
‐‐ Gina Carano

I didn't really watch 'Beavis & Butt-head' that much or 'King of the Hill,' but I was a huge 'Office Space' fan.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
‐‐ Jesse Metcalfe

I didn't really watch 'Dallas,' so I wasn't as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were 'cause he's, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
‐‐ Brittany Snow

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.
‐‐ Josh Turner

I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
‐‐ Tara Strong

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.
‐‐ Terry Bradshaw

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.
‐‐ Randall Terry

I didn't say Facebook could not enter China, but nor did I say that it could.
‐‐ Lu Wei

I didn't say I was running, did I?
‐‐ Rick Perry

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.
‐‐ Buck Owens

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
‐‐ Spiro T. Agnew

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
‐‐ Alex Chiu

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.
‐‐ Henry Cavill

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.
‐‐ Kelly McCreary

I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.
‐‐ Kelly Preston