All Quotes

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him and the way the public is with him. He's a mega-star over in Europe.
‐‐ Cole Hauser

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
‐‐ Michel Faber

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
‐‐ David Lange

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
‐‐ Robert Moog

I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.
‐‐ Lee Child

I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
‐‐ Sami Gayle

I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'
‐‐ Michael Graves

I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple.
‐‐ Tony Fadell

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
‐‐ Joan Van Ark

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
‐‐ Randy Harrison

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.
‐‐ Matt Groening

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.
‐‐ Mike Scully

I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
‐‐ Brad Thor

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.
‐‐ Lance Loud

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
‐‐ Tia Carrere

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
‐‐ Philippe Perrin

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.
‐‐ Chip Esten

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.
‐‐ Michael York

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.
‐‐ Alexander Chee

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

I had been in the gym training for many, many years, but I definitely stepped it up when it was time to get into shape to play 'Lights'. I began trying to live the life of a boxer, and that means everything that you would expect.
‐‐ Holt McCallany

I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.
‐‐ Billy Preston

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.
‐‐ Terry Riley

I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'
‐‐ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
‐‐ Peter Wright

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

I had been lucky that my physiology is well suited to space training.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.
‐‐ Guy Gavriel Kay

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I had been on another procedural show, 'Cold Case,' for seven years, and I certainly respected the legacy of 'Law & Order,' even though I had only seen a handful of episodes. Being a dad meant the reality was that I probably knew more about Dora and Diego. But I saw the show with fresh eyes, and I wasn't coming in with a bunch of baggage.
‐‐ Danny Pino

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
‐‐ Charlie Daniels

I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
‐‐ Vanessa Bayer

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
‐‐ Bobby Vinton

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
‐‐ Barney Ross