All Quotes

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
‐‐ Tom Waits

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with.
‐‐ James Adomian

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.
‐‐ George Miller

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'
‐‐ Tommy Chong

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

I used to joke that I wanted to go to the moon, but I actually do. Like, some day I think I'm going to go to the moon. That would be cool.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
‐‐ Merritt Wever

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
‐‐ John Hughes

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.
‐‐ Aneurin Barnard

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
‐‐ Otis Rush

I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
‐‐ Fleur East

I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
‐‐ Cynthia Nixon

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.
‐‐ Mac Miller

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
‐‐ Dan Colen

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
‐‐ Mallory Jansen

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

I used to know kids better because I was teaching in a classroom, but I still have a sense of comfort with them. I don't believe that kids have essentially changed.
‐‐ Cynthia Voigt

I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.
‐‐ Chili Davis

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.
‐‐ Doug Davidson

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.
‐‐ Kevin Pietersen

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
‐‐ Simon Pegg

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.
‐‐ Eric Bana

I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'
‐‐ Sean Harris

I used to like cufflinks, but I got too lazy for them. I realized I don't need them for a polished tailoring look, so more times than not, I skip them.
‐‐ Justin Tuck

I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along.
‐‐ Fred Schneider

I used to like doing school plays.
‐‐ Jamie Waylett

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.
‐‐ Gail Collins

I used to like studying a lot.
‐‐ Juan Manuel Marquez

I used to like the Jonas Brothers, but only because I thought that they were good-looking, not because I actually liked their music.
‐‐ Dionne Bromfield

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
‐‐ Zach Gilford

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
‐‐ Jared Leto

I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.
‐‐ Buddy Hackett

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.
‐‐ Claude Williams

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
‐‐ Denis Norden

I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!
‐‐ Benny Blanco

I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I used to listen to a lot of music in my studio - all the time. But as far as the music that interplays with my work, what I've done and still do is keep a lyric book and song title. The material typically comes from Eartha Kitt, Betty Davis, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas