All Quotes

I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
‐‐ Adam Rapp

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.
‐‐ Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
‐‐ Garry Marshall

I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But...' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
‐‐ Joe Taslim

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
‐‐ John E. Walker

I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'
‐‐ Steve Vai

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.
‐‐ Travis Barker

I was a kid at the end of the 1960s and in the early 1970s, so a lot of things changed. You had pop music coming up, with David Bowie, you had new television programmes and all these things. I was fascinated.
‐‐ Dries van Noten

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
‐‐ Patti Page

I was a kid from Winnipeg - I didn't know anything about the world.
‐‐ Gerry Schwartz

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.
‐‐ Tye Sheridan

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
‐‐ Iggy Azalea

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.
‐‐ Jamie Lynn Spears

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
‐‐ Fred Durst

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.
‐‐ Fred Durst

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
‐‐ Edward Burns

I was a kid who would try anything, and I said, 'Sure, I'll try theater - sounds like fun.'
‐‐ Katherine McNamara

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.
‐‐ Jeremy Denk

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
‐‐ Bill Gates

I was a kitchen porter for an hour at the Bank of England when I was 18. In the cafe, someone clicked their fingers and shouted, 'Boy, come and clear my table.' I walked out.
‐‐ Neil Morrissey

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.
‐‐ Marv Albert

I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
‐‐ C. L. R. James

I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.
‐‐ Bipasha Basu

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.
‐‐ Loni Love

I was a late bloomer.
‐‐ Alia Shawkat

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
‐‐ Hakan Nesser

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
‐‐ Yul Vazquez

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.
‐‐ Christian Borle

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell

I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.
‐‐ Lori Wilde

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.
‐‐ Lisa Scottoline

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
‐‐ John Grisham

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
‐‐ John Grisham

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
‐‐ Alex Flinn