All Quotes

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
‐‐ David Antin

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
‐‐ Garry Shandling

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.
‐‐ Linda Evangelista

I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a library book. I didn't start acting until I went to college. Once I started, it seemed to fit like a glove. I felt completely at home on stage. It was the perfect way for me to express myself, even better than writing.
‐‐ Colman Domingo

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.
‐‐ Charles Sturt

I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
‐‐ Abigail Washburn

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
‐‐ Sean Bean

I had no intention of being an entertainer.
‐‐ Don Ho

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.
‐‐ Sergio Mattarella

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.
‐‐ Angus King

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
‐‐ Stephen R. Donaldson

I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
‐‐ India de Beaufort

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
‐‐ Emma Caulfield

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

I had no interest in high school besides art.
‐‐ Damian Loeb

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.
‐‐ Shekhar Kapur

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
‐‐ Susan Downey

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
‐‐ Zach Braff

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
‐‐ Ines de La Fressange

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.
‐‐ Leo Fitzpatrick

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
‐‐ Doug Stanhope

I had no musical training at all.
‐‐ Belinda Carlisle

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
‐‐ Jack Steinberger

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
‐‐ Lizzie Andrew Borden

I had no other interests but baseball because I never thought I'd not make it. No. Never.
‐‐ Justin Verlander

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.
‐‐ Sammy Cahn

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

I had no plans to be a director.
‐‐ Mike Figgis

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
‐‐ Morgan Brittany

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
‐‐ Rabindranath Maharaj

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.
‐‐ Stephen Hopkins

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
‐‐ Gertrude B. Elion

I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.
‐‐ Mary Kom

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
‐‐ Yves Chauvin