I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!
‐‐ Portia de Rossi
I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
‐‐ Cindy Gallop
I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assignment back, she'd written: 'This is so good, Andrew. This should be published!' That made a big impression on me.
‐‐ Andrew Clements
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
‐‐ Mike Nichols
I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.
‐‐ Lori Greiner
I had a holding deal with ABC to find me a show, and I was very clear about the kind of show I wanted to do, because Indian people have always been seen as - well, we've been put in a box, about who we should be like.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
I had a hole in my voice. I still do. We call it a hole, but it's an area in the voice where it's air. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in the middle area, it was really hard.
‐‐ Cecile McLorin Salvant
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
‐‐ Fergus Henderson
I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi
I had a hope that the Iraqis would embrace a new government, would establish a new Iraq very quickly, and, but I never had that as an expectation.
‐‐ Tommy Franks
I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
‐‐ Sean Penn
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
‐‐ David Attenborough
I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.
‐‐ Hasan Minhaj
I had a huge Lisa Frank sticker collection. I traded them.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis
I had a hundred things I wanted to be, but when I was 13, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to improve the blow-dryer because it takes so long to blow-dry your hair, and it's just a waste of time. I wanted to invent the therm-alarm, which would have you throw your sheets off in the night when you got too hot.
‐‐ Brit Morin
I had a husband who stayed with me, and small children, and I had no choice but to pull myself together and rebuild a different kind of life. There was no other choice.
‐‐ Kimberly Quinn
I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake
I had a jazz trio, a rock n' roll band, and I played drums in junior high, high school, college, big bands, and I played timpani in the symphony. I am a drummer. It's the one instrument I actually play pretty well. It's just hard to carry on your back.
‐‐ J. D. Souther
I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.
‐‐ Rick Dees
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying documents, my father and I. His father was Jewish, but because my father was an illegitimate child, it was rather easy to pretend that his father was unknown.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt
I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.
‐‐ Larry David
I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.
‐‐ Reggie Watts
I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
‐‐ Chris Pine
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
‐‐ Ali Smith
I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.
‐‐ Brooke Astor
I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
‐‐ Lou Brock
I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn
I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
‐‐ G-Eazy
I had a job transcribing a biotechnology-litigation seminar. You put headphones on and fast-forward and stop with your feet. There were a lot of 'um's.'
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger
I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
‐‐ Emma Watson
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
‐‐ Antony Starr
I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.
‐‐ Joe Cocker
I had a kid, so I had to step it up and get that cake.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
‐‐ Shaun Cassidy
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
‐‐ Donald Sutherland
I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.
‐‐ Thomas McGuane
I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.
‐‐ Hugh Grant
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
‐‐ Curt Schilling
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
‐‐ Stephen Cole Kleene
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
‐‐ Alberto Manguel
I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson
I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.
‐‐ Ani DiFranco
I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.
‐‐ Daymond John
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
‐‐ Ted Allen
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt