All Quotes

I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.
‐‐ Dominique Dawes

I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
‐‐ Flume

I stuck around in Hollywood for too long. I was there a long time, and when I left, I was smart enough to realise that what I was leaving was not just the movie business. I wanted to get rid of the whole atmosphere.
‐‐ Andre Previn

I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
‐‐ John Fogerty

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.
‐‐ Poe Ballantine

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

I studied acting at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh because I figured a good comedian certainly could act.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.
‐‐ Sonja Sohn

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
‐‐ Andre Holland

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.
‐‐ Denis Leary

I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.
‐‐ John Legend

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.
‐‐ Anthony Quinn

I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
‐‐ Tom Bergeron

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
‐‐ Daniel Libeskind

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
‐‐ Karl von Frisch

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.
‐‐ Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.
‐‐ Alexander Hanson

I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
‐‐ Aaron Ciechanover

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.
‐‐ Franco Nero

I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
‐‐ Chet Faker

I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
‐‐ Manish Dayal

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.
‐‐ Stephanie Szostak

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
‐‐ Jack Steinberger

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
‐‐ Flea

I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.
‐‐ Andrew Wyatt

I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
‐‐ Kaskade

I studied cooking all through high school.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

I studied cooking in Spain after college.
‐‐ Jose Garces

I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.
‐‐ Robert Battle

I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
‐‐ Matthew Gray Gubler

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
‐‐ James Tobin

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
‐‐ Maggie Gyllenhaal

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.
‐‐ Dante Ferretti

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.
‐‐ John Dyer

I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu