All Quotes

I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler.
‐‐ Mary Matalin

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'
‐‐ Christian Borle

I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
‐‐ Lake Bell

I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

I was a competitive guy growing up.
‐‐ Mark Sanchez

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.
‐‐ Ella Eyre

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.
‐‐ Kajol

I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it.
‐‐ Rhona Mitra

I was a complete outsider in high school.
‐‐ Karen O

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.
‐‐ Amanda Burton

I was a complete, total nerd... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
‐‐ Elizabeth Mitchell

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
‐‐ Tasha Smith

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.
‐‐ Matt Long

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.
‐‐ Tony Gwynn

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'
‐‐ Al Madrigal

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater, I got into work mode.
‐‐ Scott Haze

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'
‐‐ Bronte Campbell

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
‐‐ Dallas Roberts

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
‐‐ Johnny Giles

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.
‐‐ Peter MacKay

I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'
‐‐ Kevin Barry

I was a cute kid.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.
‐‐ Patti Stanger

I was a daddy's girl.
‐‐ Lynsi Torres

I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'
‐‐ Kenny Wormald

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
‐‐ Maddie Hasson

I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that when I realized I should probably not get my nose broken anymore. I love trying new stuff. Now I'm loving archery, and I surf. I just like to explore new things, I guess. I'm a big kid!
‐‐ Falk Hentschel

I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.
‐‐ Andra Day

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action.
‐‐ Sharni Vinson

I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
‐‐ Andra Day

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
‐‐ Dan Phillips

I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I've really had to train myself to get down to the gym.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
‐‐ Francia Raisa

I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint our toenails hardened. Our favorite videos gathered dust. Her small apron was in a box in the attic. Her shoes - the sparkly ones, the leopard rain boots, the ballet slippers - stood in a corner.
‐‐ Ann Hood