All Quotes

I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.
‐‐ Gunter Blobel

I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
‐‐ Laura Hillenbrand

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
‐‐ Brittany Snow

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.
‐‐ Tim Daly

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
‐‐ Toni Braxton

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

I was a '90s kid, so I missed 'Jem and the Holograms.' But once I delved into the whole world of it, I realized it's iconic. There's incredible dancing in the movie, too.
‐‐ Aubrey Peeples

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.
‐‐ Martin Lawrence

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.
‐‐ Elsa Peretti

I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd just work as long as I wanted into the night. There was no structure.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out.
‐‐ Joely Fisher

I was a bad boy as a child.
‐‐ Andy Dick

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.
‐‐ Steve Carell

I was a bad journalist.
‐‐ David Brock

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
‐‐ Amy Smart

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
‐‐ Candice Swanepoel

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.
‐‐ Chad Harbach

I was a banker in Morocco when I first saw 'American Graffiti.' It was before I was an actor, a melancholy time in my life, and this mood was reflected in the film.
‐‐ Jean Reno

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
‐‐ Feist

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.
‐‐ Isabel Lucas

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
‐‐ Bobby Moynihan

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row.
‐‐ Pauley Perrette

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
‐‐ Calvin Johnson

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
‐‐ Ryne Sandberg

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.
‐‐ Tim DeKay

I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
‐‐ Antonio Carlos Jobim

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
‐‐ Vince Vaughn

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
‐‐ Jamie Muir

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.
‐‐ George Saunders

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
‐‐ Brian Binnie

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
‐‐ Alan Ritchson

I was a big Batman fan when I was a kid.
‐‐ Jonathan Nolan

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
‐‐ Sam Heughan

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
‐‐ Dave Davies

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
‐‐ Dane DeHaan

I was a big Broadway fan for a while.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.
‐‐ Ellen Willis

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.
‐‐ Stephen Root

I was a big Damon Hill fan, and I loved Michael Schumacher.
‐‐ Alfie Allen