All Quotes

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.
‐‐ Janis Ian

I had a variety of minds about me and all of them unsettled.
‐‐ John Clare

I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
‐‐ Laura Bell Bundy

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can bring out on a rainy day if I have a loss for inspiration or whatever - even now.
‐‐ Ariel Pink

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible.
‐‐ Michelle Gomez

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
‐‐ Owen Hart

I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I had a very boring life, which is fine. I like being boring.
‐‐ Jason Day

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

I had a very close relationship with my grandmother. She actually helped raise me.
‐‐ Brina Palencia

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
‐‐ Peter Sis

I had a very complex childhood, and when I met my wife, because she has a master's in psychology, she promoted me into getting help. It really has helped. I'm not healed yet, but I'm working on some issues I had as a child.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez

I had a very curly perm in the '80s, thanks to the 'Way You Make Me Feel' Michael Jackson video. I liked the girl in it.
‐‐ Penelope Cruz

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.
‐‐ Andy Roddick

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.
‐‐ Bill Griffith

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
‐‐ George Lopez

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

I had a very difficult upbringing.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.
‐‐ Joan Lingard

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?
‐‐ Colin Hay

I had a very exciting life in Italy, and I was doing lots of variety shows.
‐‐ Moran Atias

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
‐‐ Jack Hanna

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
‐‐ Liz Goldwyn

I had a very funny family.
‐‐ Zach Braff

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
‐‐ Bill Rancic

I had a very good sexual education. My mother was very advanced in that regard. She conveyed to me the sense of reverence and wonder about my body and the powers of my sexuality not only to give life, but also to be a whole person and to enjoy pleasure. It was put to me as an almost holy act.
‐‐ Gioconda Belli

I had a very happy childhood.
‐‐ Juan Antonio Bayona

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
‐‐ Geraldine McCaughrean

I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'
‐‐ Edward Carey

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
‐‐ David Walliams

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.
‐‐ Rik Mayall

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
‐‐ Albert Gubay

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.
‐‐ Beth Grant

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

I had a very modest upbringing.
‐‐ Balthazar Getty

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.
‐‐ James Taylor

I had a very nice, cozy childhood. I did lots of plays at school and worked with the National Youth Theatre as a teenager.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
‐‐ Ferran Adria