All Quotes

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
‐‐ Im Dong-Hyun

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
‐‐ Amanda Plummer

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
‐‐ Malcolm D. Lee

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I had a stunt double for 'The Bronze.' She's literally the most amazing human being I've ever seen. She's NCAA women's gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
‐‐ Haley Lu Richardson

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon

I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.
‐‐ Ozwald Boateng

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn't very good-looking. But in his own way he'd always save the day.
‐‐ Dave Grohl

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
‐‐ Alan King

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.
‐‐ John Carpenter

I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
‐‐ Ian McShane

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.
‐‐ Ben Vereen

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
‐‐ Martin Mull

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
‐‐ Taylor Schilling

I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney

I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.
‐‐ Lauren Lapkus

I had a temper when I played junior golf and had my clubs taken away for slamming them on the ground. I learned very quickly that I didn't want my clubs taken away from me.
‐‐ Matt Kuchar

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.
‐‐ Nina Conti

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
‐‐ Val Guest

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
‐‐ Rickie Lee Jones

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
‐‐ Ken Venturi

I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
‐‐ David Bailey

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a Tesla. But I'm telling you, I've been on the side of the road a while in that thing.
‐‐ George Clooney

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
‐‐ Liam Payne

I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.
‐‐ Kelli Williams

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.
‐‐ Paul Weller

I had a totally normal relationship with my body.
‐‐ Scarlett Pomers

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.
‐‐ Richard Ford

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
‐‐ James Broughton

I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly

I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do.
‐‐ Emma Stone

I had a tremendous four seasons there in Denver, and you know, those are four years that I'll always hold very close to my heart.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
‐‐ Bruce Conner

I had a tremendous one season playing for Coach Kubiak, and I have nothing but great things to say about him as a person and a coach.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.
‐‐ Sandy Duncan

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
‐‐ Steve Wozniak

I had a twin, and he didn't make it.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
‐‐ Dan Bartlett