All Quotes

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.
‐‐ Dan Hicks

I had difficulty working for other people.
‐‐ Don Cornelius

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

I had disagreements with all my neighbors about my dogs. I had a disagreement with myself about my dogs. They were noisy.
‐‐ John McAfee

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.
‐‐ Shirley Jones

I had done a bunch of stuff before I even went to Disney. I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.
‐‐ Michael Spiller

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.
‐‐ Gregory Harrison

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
‐‐ Douglas Feith

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.
‐‐ John Dykstra

I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' before I ever went to 'Johnny Carson.' At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn't believe it.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
‐‐ Adam Ferrara

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
‐‐ Leroy Chiao

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
‐‐ Dick York

I had done one failed pilot. I remember, when it failed, I was like, 'Oh my God, how does someone survive this? That's it - that's the end of my career; it's over.'
‐‐ John Krasinski

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
‐‐ Danica McKellar

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
‐‐ Mike Myers

I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
‐‐ Liam Neeson

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
‐‐ Victor Garber

I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.
‐‐ Guillermo Diaz

I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
‐‐ Vinessa Shaw

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
‐‐ David Alan Grier

I had done theater during high school and college, but with my life and everything I had going on, I decided to go for the health field, where there were stable jobs.
‐‐ Dascha Polanco

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.
‐‐ Michelle Kwan

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

I had dreams about working for a big foreign company.
‐‐ Roustam Tariko

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
‐‐ Greta Gerwig

I had dreams of becoming an officer and a gentleman. But hey: One out of two ain't bad.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
‐‐ Robin Yount

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
‐‐ Carre Otis

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
‐‐ Bob Graham

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.
‐‐ Maria Mitchell

I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.
‐‐ Chris Evans

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
‐‐ Tommy Hilfiger

I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
‐‐ Mac Davis

I had English grammar book and started to teach myself. I read 'Catcher in Rye,' in Russian. I was amazed at freedom in 'Catcher in Rye!' Freedom to have those perceptions of life!
‐‐ Roustam Tariko

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.
‐‐ Bob Saget

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
‐‐ Ed Helms