All Quotes

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
‐‐ Franka Potente

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
‐‐ Adelaide Clemens

I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.
‐‐ Eric Schlosser

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.
‐‐ Josh Charles

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
‐‐ Don Ameche

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
‐‐ Oliver North

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
‐‐ Sam Shepard

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
‐‐ Dave Edmunds

I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.
‐‐ George Zimmer

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.
‐‐ Jeff Bingaman

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
‐‐ Dalton Trumbo

I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.
‐‐ Doreen Cronin

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.
‐‐ Steve-O

I never cook from cookbooks.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.
‐‐ Jonathan Toews

I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.
‐‐ Rene Redzepi

I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
‐‐ Joshua Chamberlain

I never could be good when I was not happy.
‐‐ Julia Ward Howe

I never could get a proper job.
‐‐ Tibor Fischer

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
‐‐ Bruce Johnston

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
‐‐ E. M. Forster

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
‐‐ David Bowie

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore

I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.
‐‐ James D. Watson

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
‐‐ Ty Cobb

I never count calories, but I eat so well.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
‐‐ Venus Williams

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
‐‐ Val Kilmer

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.
‐‐ Dick York

I never danced growing up.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
‐‐ Robert Frost

I never dated much in high school or college.
‐‐ David Spade

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
‐‐ Stephen Malkmus

I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
‐‐ Brian Binnie

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
‐‐ John Osborne

I never deny a true experience in one shot.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson