All Quotes

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
‐‐ Harold Prince

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
‐‐ Scott Wolf

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
‐‐ Judith Krantz

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.
‐‐ Ray Davies

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.
‐‐ Gary Carter

I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.
‐‐ Dan Hill

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
‐‐ James H. Boren

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
‐‐ Julie Harris

I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd always wanted, as it's such a well-constructed show, and my background is in musical theatre. I'd been travelling back and forth between London and Spain for auditions and had been borrowing money from friends to do it.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.
‐‐ Condoleezza Rice

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

I got the copyright for love!
‐‐ Leo Buscaglia

I got the famous Oprah hug!
‐‐ Taylor Lautner

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.
‐‐ John Fusco

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

I got 'The Grey' made because Liam Neeson wanted to make that movie.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the 'Cinderella' soundtrack, I thought, 'What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn't mind kicking butt?'
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
‐‐ Frances Mayes

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
‐‐ Summer Altice

I got the pilot for 'Scrubs' sent to me, and in the margin for Dr. Cox, it said 'a John McGinley type.' So when I went in to audition, I said to Billy Lawrence, who's a dear friend of mine, I said, 'Well, I'm John McGinley.'
‐‐ John C. McGinley

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
‐‐ Candice Bergen

I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing, and I was immediately turned off. It's not my thing. But I continued on, and by the time I got to the end of the script, I had chicken skin and tears in my eyes. I thought, 'Man, we don't make movies like this anymore.'
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
‐‐ Adam McKay

I got the stamina. I can close.
‐‐ Michael Phelps

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
‐‐ Magnus Carlsen

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.
‐‐ Angela Kinsey

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
‐‐ Ann Powers

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.
‐‐ John Astin

I got this call that they wanted me to join this cast. They called it a family show, and it thought that it would be similar to all family shows. I wasn't sure about this until I watched some tapes, and was amazed.
‐‐ Tony Danza

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
‐‐ M. Ward

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
‐‐ Sid Vicious

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
‐‐ Nick Rhodes

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
‐‐ Truman Capote

I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'
‐‐ Katy Perry

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.
‐‐ Big Sean

I got three whippings a day from my mama.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

I got through college.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
‐‐ Bruce McCulloch

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.
‐‐ Diane Cilento

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
‐‐ Paddy Considine