All Quotes

I had this tic where I touch my mouth to my knee, and I'm always screwing up my back. I've had two shoulder surgeries. My doctor just smiles and laughs at me.
‐‐ Dash Mihok

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
‐‐ Olivia Thirlby

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.
‐‐ Russell Wilson

I had this vague notion that one day I might be editor of 'Vogue China.' It was a bizarre ambition, as I didn't speak a word of Chinese. There were flaws in my plan, admittedly.
‐‐ Katie McGrath

I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.
‐‐ Michael Muller

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
‐‐ Ahmet Zappa

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
‐‐ Juno Temple

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.
‐‐ Tim Gunn

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

I had thought a lot about unmarried life during my years as an unmarried woman - which was all during my 20s and into my 30s. I was someone who didn't have a ton of relationships as a single person - and so I had a sharp identification with singlehood.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
‐‐ Kate Thompson

I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.
‐‐ Mathias Rust

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
‐‐ Alan Bradley

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'
‐‐ Matthew Quick

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.
‐‐ Joan Lunden

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
‐‐ June Squibb

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
‐‐ Jessica Seinfeld

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.
‐‐ John Wooden

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
‐‐ Frank Gifford

I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in the jacuzzi - we weren't old enough - so I would charge people $1, and everyone would line up, and everyone would sit in this disgusting hot water-sand-filled thing, and I would get $1 and go to the snack bar and get an Oreo.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.
‐‐ Joe Johnston

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.
‐‐ Levon Helm

I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
‐‐ Zakk Wylde

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.
‐‐ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
‐‐ George W. Bush

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
‐‐ Paul Gascoigne

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.
‐‐ Shawn Fanning

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
‐‐ Mary Cheney

I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
‐‐ Dominic Chianese

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.
‐‐ Tom Araya

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
‐‐ Tippi Hedren

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
‐‐ Ruth Pitter

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
‐‐ Kaki King

I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
‐‐ Larry Hovis

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
‐‐ Aidan Quinn

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.
‐‐ Toby Jones

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Annaud

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.
‐‐ Dianne Wiest