All Quotes

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.
‐‐ Jason Newsted

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.
‐‐ Christian Slater

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
‐‐ Erik Larson

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
‐‐ Lee Majors

I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
‐‐ Jake Shimabukuro

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
‐‐ Mike Oldfield

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
‐‐ Debbie Harry

I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
‐‐ Curtis Stone

I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
‐‐ Kevin Dillon

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.
‐‐ Robert Knepper

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
‐‐ Dave Davies

I thought I'd write a massive postmodern novel about Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood, but it turns out they couldn't have met because the first mention of Robin Hood appears 60 years after Richard died.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
‐‐ James Levine

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.
‐‐ Paul Gascoigne

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
‐‐ Beth Gibbons

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
‐‐ Harvey Pekar

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
‐‐ Peter Roskam

I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.
‐‐ Deborah Kara Unger

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.
‐‐ Jidenna

I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
‐‐ Carly Patterson

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
‐‐ Glenn Miller

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.
‐‐ Cy Young

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.
‐‐ Courtney Thorne-Smith

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
‐‐ Ann Richards

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'
‐‐ Denise Di Novi

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
‐‐ John Templeton

I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life.
‐‐ Portia de Rossi

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.
‐‐ Adrian Belew

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
‐‐ Glen Taylor

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
‐‐ George Stevens

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
‐‐ Karen Allen

I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.
‐‐ Elena Delle Donne

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.
‐‐ Dax Shepard

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
‐‐ Fay Wray

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.
‐‐ Hedi Slimane

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
‐‐ Andrew McCarthy

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.
‐‐ Matthew McGrory

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?
‐‐ Jerry Yang