All Quotes

I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.
‐‐ Esther Rolle

I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends.
‐‐ James Arness

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
‐‐ Natalie Babbitt

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.
‐‐ Vincent Schiavelli

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
‐‐ Bill Wyman

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.
‐‐ John Schneider

I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
‐‐ Gaby Hoffmann

I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
‐‐ Caroline Leavitt

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.
‐‐ Nina Arianda

I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
‐‐ Jay Parini

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.
‐‐ Brad Bird

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
‐‐ Barry Hannah

I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
‐‐ Jennifer Ellison

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.
‐‐ James MacArthur

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that.
‐‐ Eddie Vedder

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.
‐‐ Christina Milian

I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world's tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.
‐‐ Richard Preston

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
‐‐ R. C. Sproul

I had actually hurt my neck, and because I went a while without getting it taken care of - it was pushing up against the back of my heart - and because I have heart issues, they thought it was this whole big deal. So I spent a good three days in the hospital, two nights in the ICU.
‐‐ Austin Carlile

I had actually studied political science in college. I had dreams of being a lawyer at one time.
‐‐ Michael Kelly

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
‐‐ Gale Gordon

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
‐‐ Emanuel Celler

I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticides. So I turned to bear, caribou, venison, hippopotamus, buffalo, elk and moose. Taste-wise, buffalo and elk are tied for first. Not gamy, and loaded with protein. And very expensive, I might add.
‐‐ Billy Casper

I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of planning a wedding and buying bridal magazines and imagining things and setting up who would play what role? No. Because as I grew up, I started to believe that I would be one of those gals that never got married.
‐‐ Sara Ramirez

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
‐‐ Sally Schneider

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
‐‐ Macaulay Culkin

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
‐‐ Leslie Jones

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
‐‐ June Carter Cash

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

I had all this success and made all this money, but I didn't have anyone to share it with.
‐‐ Jeff Greene

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
‐‐ Karl Philipp Moritz

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
‐‐ Bill Joy

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I had already been approached to do modeling, but in the beginning, I didn't want to hear of it. Then, after two months of delivering pizza, I changed my mind, and I presented myself at the agency.
‐‐ Dylan Penn

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.
‐‐ Michael Johnson

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck.
‐‐ Jose Canseco

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
‐‐ Terry Riley

I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
‐‐ Eula Biss