All Quotes

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
‐‐ Harold Budd

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.
‐‐ Alex Rocco

I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.
‐‐ Taylor Spreitler

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
‐‐ Frank McCourt

I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
‐‐ Randy Moss

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.
‐‐ Alexis Arguello

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.
‐‐ Chris LeDoux

I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy.
‐‐ Birdman

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
‐‐ Edie McClurg

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.
‐‐ Brett Somers

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.
‐‐ Mathew Brady

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.
‐‐ Monica Potter

I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
‐‐ Grandmaster Flash

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
‐‐ Cheryl Strayed

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.
‐‐ Percy Heath

I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.
‐‐ Sean Bean

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
‐‐ John C. Hawkes

I had to have a complete liver transplant.
‐‐ Shelley Fabares

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
‐‐ Shelley Fabares

I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook.
‐‐ Traci Bingham

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
‐‐ Tippi Hedren

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
‐‐ Lacey Chabert

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
‐‐ Christopher Eccleston

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
‐‐ Adolf Galland

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
‐‐ Garrett Hedlund

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.
‐‐ Bridget Hall

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

I had to know at least two languages.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
‐‐ Kenny Dalglish

I had to learn a lot on 'Victorious' because I had never done multi-camera before. It's like music: You need to be on it, and there's no room for subtleties.
‐‐ Avan Jogia

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
‐‐ Louise Penny

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.
‐‐ Melissa George

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence

I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto.
‐‐ Kevin McDonald

I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.
‐‐ Hit-Boy

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
‐‐ Cat Stevens