I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.
‐‐ Yoenis Cespedes
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino
I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
‐‐ Danny McBride
I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
‐‐ Kiran Bedi
I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
‐‐ Martha Beck
I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.
‐‐ Guy Forget
I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
‐‐ Neil Cross
I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.
‐‐ Jim Harrison
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
‐‐ Peter Straub
I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
‐‐ Shawn Johnson
I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
‐‐ Suzanne Lee
I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.
‐‐ Chris Cooper
I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.
‐‐ Nicole Anderson
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin
I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.
‐‐ Norman Rockwell
I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'
‐‐ Bill Condon
I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.
‐‐ Gerard Way
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
‐‐ Halsey
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.
‐‐ Martha Stewart
I had a CrossFit trainer for two weeks. I fired him.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert
I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
‐‐ R. Kelly
I had a dad you know.
‐‐ Darrell Hammond
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!
‐‐ Justin Chon
I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.
‐‐ Gene Wilder
I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
‐‐ Jane Campion
I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.
‐‐ Kenny Baker
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
‐‐ Jon Feltheimer
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
‐‐ Sean Parker
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.
‐‐ Archie Panjabi
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
‐‐ Karen Elson
I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.
‐‐ Srikumar Rao
I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.
‐‐ Kevin Costner
I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so they had to open me up five times in four months... It was in the bottom of my back, the same incision. They should have put a zipper on it.
‐‐ Steve Wynn
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy.
‐‐ Mary Doria Russell
I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace.
‐‐ Kidada Jones
I had a dog I raised for many years. He was a Pekingese with big eyes and a flat face, very cute.
‐‐ Stephen Chow
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone... so I had to bring him wherever I went.
‐‐ Matthew Pearl
I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good horse rider: I thought falling off was normal, and I would just get back on again. I didn't realise you weren't meant to fall off.
‐‐ Lee Pearson
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
‐‐ Sissy Spacek
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
‐‐ Harold Ramis
I had a dream. I dreamed I was on this island, and there were two hotels, and one hotel was filled with dead people, and the other one wasn't, and I was in the hotel full of dead people.
‐‐ Frank Dillane
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.
‐‐ Tony Kushner
I had a dream, my dream came true, and my mom was there for me every step of the way. We didn't do this for any other reason. I am so happy she is here to experience this with me. This would not be the same if she were not by my side.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
‐‐ Ori Gersht
I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.
‐‐ Stan Laurel
I had a dream that my dad passed away and that Jesus came into the room and he was basically knocking on my door, saying, 'Hey, you need to find out more about me.' So that Sunday morning I ended up going to church, and that's when I got saved.
‐‐ Russell Wilson
I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.
‐‐ Katia Winter