All Quotes

I used to not want to die in any way but in my sleep when I was a young man. I'd like to die awake now, if possible, with people around me who love me.
‐‐ Alan Alda

I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.
‐‐ James Welch

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.
‐‐ Jonathan Levine

I used to overpack a lot and sometimes even forgot vital pieces of clothing, such as my swimming shorts and sandals. I'm much better now. I only take what I know I'm going to wear or use and always double-check my suitcase so I don't have to rush to the nearest clothing store when I unpack at the hotel.
‐‐ Jean Reno

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
‐‐ John Dyer

I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.
‐‐ Brian Posehn

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
‐‐ Abbie Cornish

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.
‐‐ Peter Wright

I used to paint pictures - what happened was, I used to draw and paint pictures. And some of my friends would be, like, 'Yo, you should put that on a T-shirt,' because that's where their brain would go.
‐‐ Michael Che

I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
‐‐ Cy Coleman

I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
‐‐ Jaime Pressly

I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
‐‐ Sturgill Simpson

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
‐‐ Jason Statham

I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I used to play a lot of villains. You have to break out of it, and I did.
‐‐ Sean Bean

I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
‐‐ Mal Peet

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.
‐‐ Benicio Del Toro

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn't believe it. He thought, 'What have I created, a floozy?' But it worked!
‐‐ Jordana Spiro

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom's closet and show her the new collection.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
‐‐ Dolph Lundgren

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
‐‐ Barkhad Abdi

I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
‐‐ Im Dong-Hyun

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.
‐‐ Julio Iglesias

I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.
‐‐ Nellie McKay

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
‐‐ French Montana

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
‐‐ Eliza Coupe

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.
‐‐ Caroline Corr

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
‐‐ Katy B

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff.
‐‐ David Edwards

I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don't mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
‐‐ Bill Nye

I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.
‐‐ King Tuff

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
‐‐ Birdy

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
‐‐ B. B. King

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.
‐‐ Chris Lowe

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.
‐‐ Joshua Roman

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.
‐‐ Jim Hunt

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.
‐‐ Audra McDonald

I used to practice Wicca.
‐‐ Patti Stanger