All Quotes

I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
‐‐ Katrina Law

I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
‐‐ Sander Levin

I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
‐‐ Nat Wolff

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.
‐‐ Junior Seau

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
‐‐ Philip Pullman

I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.
‐‐ Shelley Conn

I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
‐‐ Zachery Ty Bryan

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
‐‐ Conor Maynard

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.
‐‐ James Cameron

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.
‐‐ George Phillips Bond

I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.
‐‐ Tom Lehman

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
‐‐ Eric McCormack

I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
‐‐ Jason Wiles

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'
‐‐ Olivia Hussey

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.
‐‐ Joel Parkinson

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.
‐‐ Mark Viduka

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

I had plenty of vices growing up.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
‐‐ Orville Redenbacher

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
‐‐ Richard Hammond

I had pretty cool parents. Still do.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.
‐‐ Jerry Harrison

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.
‐‐ Jennifer Hale

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.
‐‐ Devon Aoki

I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was hard. It was not a very happy time for me.
‐‐ Dinah Sheridan

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I had racially prejudiced comments directed at me on different blogs. People think that just because you're in the spotlight, you're fair game. It's hard, and I don't think you're ready at any age for it. Thankfully, I have some great fans who got me through it.
‐‐ Kat Graham

I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
‐‐ George Berkeley

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
‐‐ Julius Caesar

I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.
‐‐ Henry IV

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
‐‐ Alexander the Great