I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
‐‐ Sam Waterston
I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.
‐‐ Corey Reynolds
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
‐‐ James Cagney
I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix
I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.
‐‐ Jeffrey Jones
I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.
‐‐ Birdy
I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute.
‐‐ Rebecca Loos
I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.
‐‐ Joe Mande
I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck
I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur.
‐‐ John Darnielle
I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
‐‐ Banks
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik
I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding
I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible.
‐‐ Marylouise Burke
I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
‐‐ Quincy Jones
I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
‐‐ Jason Mewes
I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
‐‐ Gregory Harrison
I got a signed document from Bullock's saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock's!
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman
I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.
‐‐ George Foreman
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
‐‐ Brett Ratner
I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'
‐‐ Brittany Snow
I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
‐‐ Vidal Sassoon
I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston
I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth
I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
‐‐ Robert Orben
I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?
‐‐ Huey Lewis
I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.
‐‐ Rick Yancey
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
‐‐ Johann Lamont
I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.
‐‐ Craig Brewer
I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.
‐‐ Flavor Flav
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
‐‐ James Brown
I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.
‐‐ Roy Orbison
I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.
‐‐ Hasil Adkins
I got accepted at Yale but never went.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
‐‐ Todd Barry
I got active in this business of politics and self-government in 1958 when my father, who was serving in the U.S. Army, took us to the battlefield of Verdun.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich
I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
‐‐ Bam Margera
I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac
I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
‐‐ Fiona Apple
I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.
‐‐ Gordon Gee
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.
‐‐ Hermione Gingold
I got all the women and everything I want, but my brother is locked up. I can't leave him behind.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign
I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, 'You're too different.'
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling
I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera
I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.
‐‐ Seinabo Sey