All Quotes

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.
‐‐ Patina Miller

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
‐‐ Joe Klein

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
‐‐ Samantha Power

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.
‐‐ Christine Baranski

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
‐‐ Brian Posehn

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
‐‐ Shannon Miller

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. The first time I listened to jazz, he gave me a Thelonious Monk record. It was so different from anything I had ever heard. It took me a while to understand it, and I liked that. I liked the fact that it wasn't immediately palatable.
‐‐ Ted King

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
‐‐ John Cullum

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.
‐‐ Delta Burke

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
‐‐ Nigel Rees

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.
‐‐ James Lasdun

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
‐‐ Talulah Riley

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
‐‐ Donald Tusk

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
‐‐ Patrick Murphy

I got into politics when I was eight years old.
‐‐ Jonathan Krohn

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I got into psychology simply because that's what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, 'Follow your sister's footsteps.' I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did... really had no interest in it, to be honest.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
‐‐ Mel Torme

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
‐‐ Joe Abercrombie

I got into real estate very much by accident.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
‐‐ Sam Walton

I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
‐‐ Yana Kudryavtseva

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
‐‐ Randy Schekman

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
‐‐ Jason Isaacs

I got into singing when I was 6.
‐‐ Danielle de Niese

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I got into sports, thankfully, because I didn't listen to my mother.
‐‐ Dat Nguyen

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.
‐‐ David Spade

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.
‐‐ Sean Patrick Flanery

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
‐‐ Ed O'Neill

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

I got into the acting business very young.
‐‐ James MacArthur

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
‐‐ Patrick McHenry

I got into the race because I'm concerned for my children, and for the opportunities they don't have. Really, it's for the same concerns that the people of the 16th district have. They're concerned about jobs.
‐‐ Jim Renacci

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.
‐‐ Li Bingbing

I got into the studio when I was thirteen. At the age of twelve I was doing public performances.
‐‐ Chingy

I got into theater at an early age.
‐‐ Kevin Daniels

I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.
‐‐ Colin Donnell

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
‐‐ Judith Light

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
‐‐ Fiona Apple