All Quotes

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
‐‐ Henny Youngman

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
‐‐ Howard Hodgkin

I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
‐‐ Caitlin Moran

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.
‐‐ Matthew Bourne

I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.
‐‐ Spencer Grammer

I once went to a 'Star Trek' convention by mistake - I thought I was going to a 'Doctor Who' one.
‐‐ Sylvester McCoy

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
‐‐ Victoria Wood

I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
‐‐ Anita Loos

I once won a Grammy for an Australian version of 'Turn the Page' that another artist did; I can't remember his name. There've been covers down through the years around the world, but I did like Metallica's, because I kind of related to Metallica when they first came out, because Jimmy Hetfield really reminded me of me in 1965, you know?
‐‐ Bob Seger

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won the prize for best all-around student. Afterwards my father said to me, 'Never, ever disgrace me like that again.' When I tell my Western friends, they are aghast. But I adore my father. It didn't knock my self-esteem at all.
‐‐ Amy Chua

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
‐‐ Harlan Coben

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.
‐‐ John Niven

I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.
‐‐ Ricardo Semler

I once worked with Emma Thompson's mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.
‐‐ Thomas Sangster

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.
‐‐ August Wilson

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.
‐‐ Sophie Hunger

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
‐‐ Taron Egerton

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.
‐‐ Rich Sommer

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.
‐‐ Jake Lloyd

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

I only became a celebrity because I had a kid. Before I was pregnant nobody cared. I joke to my agent that having a baby made my career.
‐‐ Busy Philipps

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.
‐‐ Isaiah Washington

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I only box. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. I can't just go to the gym and run. I'd rather die. I played volleyball and rode horses my entire life, so just, like, moving to a city and having to go the gym was just, like, so weird for me.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.
‐‐ Robert Wyatt

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
‐‐ Kate McKinnon

I only cook when I'm in love.
‐‐ Zsa Zsa Gabor

I only dance when I go out.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
‐‐ Jared Leto

I only direct in self-defense.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.
‐‐ Sonam Kapoor

I only do private room karaoke where it's just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.
‐‐ Chelsea Peretti

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
‐‐ Graham Nash

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

I only do what comes from the heart.
‐‐ LL Cool J

I only do what I like to do.
‐‐ Christoph Waltz

I only do what I love, when I love, how I love to fill up the time.
‐‐ George Stroumboulopoulos