All Quotes

I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
‐‐ Clive Owen

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I had to say no to 'Fantasy Island' back when I was doing 'Bosom Buddies.'
‐‐ Tom Hanks

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.
‐‐ Paul Cleave

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
‐‐ Yancy Butler

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
‐‐ Lars Mikkelsen

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
‐‐ Julius Erving

I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
‐‐ Dana Hill

I had to steel myself against this psychic devastation - to see your father on the street. It's hard enough to pick up somebody you don't know from the streets, and then to actually have other people pick your father up - it was psychically devastating.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.
‐‐ George Clooney

I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can't say, 'Excuse me, boo,' as they're weeping on your bosom.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
‐‐ Boris Kodjoe

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.
‐‐ Elie Tahari

I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting myself out there in that way. I don't consider myself a good writer, so I had to rely on a co-writer. Still, I knew that people would judge me and my writing. I am really proud of the way the series turned out.
‐‐ Georgina Bloomberg

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest.
‐‐ Marylouise Burke

I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.
‐‐ Miranda Cosgrove

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
‐‐ James Brown

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe

I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.
‐‐ Golshifteh Farahani

I had to test a new terror in myself.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.
‐‐ Bode Miller

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
‐‐ Gerald McRaney

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
‐‐ Julie Delpy

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
‐‐ Daniel Johns

I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
‐‐ Claudio Reyna

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.
‐‐ Margaret Mahy

I had to wait my turn. I had to learn that even when you're sitting behind somebody, you still have a chance to learn something every single day.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
‐‐ George Michael

I had to want to lose weight myself.
‐‐ Nell Carter

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
‐‐ John Stossel

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
‐‐ Leslie Nielsen

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

I had to work at everything.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I had to work from a young age.
‐‐ Giancarlo Esposito

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood