All Quotes

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

I had an amazing childhood.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.
‐‐ Jessie J

I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
‐‐ Criss Angel

I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.
‐‐ Mitch Hewer

I had an amazing experience with 'Third Watch'. I was so happy when 'The Game' came back because I never wanted it to end. And then with 'Burn Notice,' too.
‐‐ Coby Bell

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
‐‐ Tina Yothers

I had an amazing mother. She raised nine kids, practically as a single parent, which is the hardest thing in the world. Nine of us! Day in and day out. She had to make sure we all had an education and that we all felt loved.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw

I had an amazing teacher, who was Burmese, and she was living in Paris at the time, and she is one of very few who doesn't actually receive a credit in the film because she still has family over there.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

I had an amazing time on 'Stargate: Atlantis', and a really great run on that show, which was shot in my hometown. It was kind of a dream job.
‐‐ Jewel Staite

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.
‐‐ Sela Ward

I had an attachment disorder.
‐‐ Dave Pelzer

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.
‐‐ Tionne Watkins

I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
‐‐ Lalla Ward

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'
‐‐ Ryan Giggs

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

I had an emerald ring that my mother gave me four or five years before she died. She wore it always, I wore it always, and I have given it to my daughter, and she wears it always. This ring belonged originally to my great, great grandfather. It's well over 150 years old.
‐‐ Jennifer Johnston

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
‐‐ Demi Moore

I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
‐‐ Ram Shriram

I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.
‐‐ Thomas Peterffy

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
‐‐ Jean M. Auel

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.
‐‐ Lori Greiner

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
‐‐ Bob Schieffer

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
‐‐ Flume

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.
‐‐ CC Sabathia

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
‐‐ Henry Bessemer

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
‐‐ Kate Bush

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
‐‐ Caitlin Rose

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
‐‐ Charles M. Blow

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
‐‐ Jennifer Capriati

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
‐‐ Ida B. Wells

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.
‐‐ Antoinette Perry

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
‐‐ Hannah Kent

I had an investor who said to me he'd keep his money with me as long as I didn't have a girlfriend and I didn't start combing my hair.
‐‐ Martin Shkreli

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.
‐‐ Robert Palmer

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
‐‐ John Lydon

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
‐‐ Illeana Douglas

I had an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother, and though I look back fondly on my childhood, I think that when you've got four siblings sharing the same resources and a single kids' bathroom, it's going to get a little tense at times.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
‐‐ Steve Case

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola