All Quotes

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.
‐‐ Chris Hillman

I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I even trained myself to be a tree surgeon.
‐‐ Rory McCann

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
‐‐ St. Vincent

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.
‐‐ Brendon Urie

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
‐‐ David A. Stewart

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.
‐‐ Cliff Curtis

I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.
‐‐ Ruth Warrick

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.
‐‐ Marc Webb

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.
‐‐ Michelle Forbes

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.
‐‐ Alethea Kontis

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

I was a mathematics major and really into math.
‐‐ Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.
‐‐ Michael Rosenbaum

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane.
‐‐ Gordon Bethune

I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie.
‐‐ Shaquille O'Neal

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
‐‐ John Kasich

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
‐‐ Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.
‐‐ Brian Friel

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
‐‐ Eduard Shevardnadze

I was a member of the VHS generation. I used to study movies as a kid because I had a VCR and could record a movie on HBO and just watch it repeatedly.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

I was a mere 29-year-old instructor at Kyoto, enjoying daily research work with some young students. Nothing had prepared me to be a professor at a major national university. Being too young and inexperienced to be a Full Professor, I was first appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry.
‐‐ Ryoji Noyori

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.
‐‐ Jason Mewes

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
‐‐ Leeza Gibbons

I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
‐‐ Richard Parsons

I was a militant.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
‐‐ Carol Shea-Porter

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.
‐‐ Johnny Depp

I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
‐‐ Kerry Bishe

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

I was a mindless eater. I ate for comfort. I also ate out of boredom and habit.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.
‐‐ John Catsimatidis

I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
‐‐ Ed Speleers

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
‐‐ Beau Garrett

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
‐‐ Barry Bonds

I was a monster, a problem child.
‐‐ Shaun White

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.
‐‐ Bernhard Goetz

I was a mother's boy.
‐‐ Don Rickles

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.
‐‐ Ann Hood

I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.
‐‐ Zac Brown