All Quotes

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
‐‐ Debra Wilson

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
‐‐ Christian Slater

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.
‐‐ Rodney Atkins

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
‐‐ Dinah Sheridan

I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn't really excel in anything particularly. But I was happy with who I was.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
‐‐ Sylvia Kristel

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
‐‐ Mel Torme

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
‐‐ B. B. King

I was a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.
‐‐ Mark Linn-Baker

I was a single mom.
‐‐ Allison Anders

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
‐‐ Connie Stevens

I was a single mother when my child was little.
‐‐ Gloria Allred

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

I was a skinny 17-year-old.
‐‐ Roger Rees

I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

I was a slightly geeky kid.
‐‐ Joe Mansueto

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
‐‐ Etta James

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
‐‐ Gerry Cooney

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.
‐‐ Eminem

I was a smoker for about 20 years.
‐‐ Selma Blair

I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.
‐‐ Loudon Wainwright III

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.
‐‐ Ariel Rechtshaid

I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
‐‐ Rae Carson

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
‐‐ Barbara Mikulski

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
‐‐ Andrew Sarris

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
‐‐ Jonathan Demme

I was a sort of serious little dude - snobby.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
‐‐ Harold MacMillan

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.
‐‐ Graham Moore

I was a spiritual kid.
‐‐ Kristin Chenoweth

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.
‐‐ Terry Crews

I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
‐‐ John Michael Higgins

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.
‐‐ Ron Moody

I was a stage-struck kid.
‐‐ George Cukor

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
‐‐ Samm Levine

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.
‐‐ Paul Feig

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
‐‐ Anna Lee

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
‐‐ Dennis Eckersley

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didn't exist.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
‐‐ Barbara Boxer

I was a stoopball fan. I played stoopball all the time.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson