All Quotes

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.
‐‐ Tracey Gold

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.
‐‐ Robin Gibb

I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
‐‐ Zoe Tapper

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.
‐‐ Tom Rachman

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
‐‐ Mel Torme

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.
‐‐ Joseph Jarman

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.
‐‐ Kimberley Nixon

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
‐‐ Brian De Palma

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'
‐‐ Mary Lynn Rajskub

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
‐‐ Barry Zito

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.
‐‐ Greg Egan

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I hadn't planned on being an activist.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
‐‐ Chelsea Clinton

I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

I hadn't realised what an institution 'Doctor Who' is.
‐‐ Jessica Raine

I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
‐‐ Edgar Winter

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
‐‐ Hal Linden

I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'
‐‐ Sascha Radetsky

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.
‐‐ Mike Mignola

I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.
‐‐ Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
‐‐ Joan Didion

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
‐‐ Ian Botham

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
‐‐ Grace Hopper

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.
‐‐ Retief Goosen