All Quotes

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

I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I thought I was a good kid.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn't give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.
‐‐ Bernhard Goetz

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
‐‐ Shane Smith

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
‐‐ Maud Adams

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
‐‐ Yael Naim

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.
‐‐ Linda McMahon

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.
‐‐ Nia Vardalos

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
‐‐ Evel Knievel

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
‐‐ Amy Tan

I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

I thought I was funny as a kid.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
‐‐ Ted Nelson

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
‐‐ Christopher Moore

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.
‐‐ Lorraine Bracco

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.
‐‐ Zachary Knighton

I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.
‐‐ Terry J. Lundgren

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.
‐‐ Elliot Richardson

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
‐‐ Billy Eichner

I thought I was going to be on Broadway. I thought, 'I'm going to do theater.'
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

I thought I was going to jump further than that, but I don't care - I'm Olympic champion.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
‐‐ Matt Groening

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.
‐‐ Tequan Richmond

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.
‐‐ Diane Warren

I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.
‐‐ ASAP Ferg

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.
‐‐ Bob McNair

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.
‐‐ Heidi Montag

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
‐‐ Frank Quattrone

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
‐‐ Judy Holliday

I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; the expressions I have made should be qualified as the most over-acted scene in the history of the cinema. The dog's expressions were more real than mine.
‐‐ Shahid Kapoor

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
‐‐ Ethan Hawke

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swelling up. I could barely breathe.
‐‐ Adrian Peterson

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.
‐‐ Robert Adams

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.
‐‐ Jeremy Sumpter