All Quotes

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.
‐‐ Nick Park

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

I used to get into a lot of fights.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.
‐‐ Joan Kirner

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
‐‐ Dick Gregory

I used to get, like, 2,000 letters a week at one point.
‐‐ Andrew Keegan

I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.
‐‐ Kenny Wormald

I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.
‐‐ Mike Trout

I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
‐‐ Amy Poehler

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
‐‐ Elton John

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I used to get nervous so I took up Yoga to help me calm down.
‐‐ Jim Sullivan

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
‐‐ Roger Federer

I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
‐‐ Jerry Reed

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan

I used to get really sick. I would go to the doctor with all these ailments, and they would tell me I needed to be at home. I didn't even really understand what that meant because since I was a baby, I've always been moving, moving, and then touring.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.
‐‐ Joe Cocker

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.
‐‐ Tom DeLonge

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
‐‐ Carolyn Kizer

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.
‐‐ Valerie Harper

I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
‐‐ Mackenzie Astin

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I used to get tired of drinking iced tea, so I'd ask my wife if we had some lemonade, and I would just dump it right in there.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

I used to give out Mickey Mouse awards to people. I like Mickey Mouse because he represented certain values. He invested in people, was good to his friends and hard on his enemies. Once a year, I would have our management team from each division come to an offsite, and I would talk about Mickey Mouse.
‐‐ Bernard L. Schwartz

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
‐‐ Mary Cassatt

I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me.
‐‐ Matt Bellamy

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
‐‐ Otis Blackwell

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
‐‐ Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I used to go in at 5:30 or 6:00 so I could run.
‐‐ Paul Begala

I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
‐‐ Gattlin Griffith

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
‐‐ George Best

I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.
‐‐ Coco Austin

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.
‐‐ Mike White

I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley