All Quotes

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
‐‐ Oleg Cassini

I've been around the bend in corporations.
‐‐ Indra Nooyi

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.
‐‐ David Johansen

I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years.
‐‐ Jerry Stiller

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.
‐‐ Tim McGraw

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.
‐‐ Don Winslow

I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
‐‐ Abraham A. Ribicoff

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
‐‐ Frankie Avalon

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
‐‐ Scott Brooks

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent disobedience. It's something appealing to a higher law.
‐‐ Josh Fox

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
‐‐ Philippe Perrin

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
‐‐ Dashiell Hammett

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
‐‐ Rachel Ward

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.
‐‐ James Blake

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
‐‐ Andy Murray

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.
‐‐ Lynn Nottage

I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
‐‐ Chuck Klosterman

I've been asked for years to do a reality show. One of my criteria is that I would be given the opportunity to show a strong family unit.
‐‐ Kim Fields

I've been asked many times if I considered myself a narcissist, so I looked up the real meaning of the word, and I came to the conclusion that indeed I am one. I think of myself as better than other people, not every person, but many, unique and talented, and I aim to success.
‐‐ Robbie Williams

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
‐‐ John Lydon

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
‐‐ Pink

I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
‐‐ Laura Trott

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.
‐‐ Chris Carter

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
‐‐ John Oates

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

I've been asked to sign a forehead.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.
‐‐ John Saxon

I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
‐‐ Lance Bass

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I've been asked, 'What was your big break?' I don't feel like I've had a big break. It's been a slow, slow break.
‐‐ Scoot McNairy

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part.
‐‐ David Byrne

I've been astounded to discover how good to their teams and crew that Marvel are. They're so collaborative, so smart with their stories. They have rich, dynamic characters which are so much fun to play.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I've been at every American Legion and VFW post in my district.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving.
‐‐ Jamie Redknapp

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
‐‐ Carmelo Anthony

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
‐‐ Carolyn See

I've been at this a long time, but commercials are what hit for me. Casting directors watch those commercials.
‐‐ Kyle Bornheimer

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.
‐‐ James A. Moore