I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
‐‐ Mr. T
I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.
‐‐ George Saunders
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
‐‐ James Roday
I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.
‐‐ Brittany Howard
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
‐‐ Lady Gaga
I was a street dancer.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt
I was a street performer for two years.
‐‐ Bernie Mac
I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
‐‐ Earl Butz
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
‐‐ Art Garfunkel
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
‐‐ Henry Flynt
I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.
‐‐ Li Keqiang
I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko
I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
‐‐ Klaus Fuchs
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
‐‐ Alan Rickman
I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.
‐‐ Lainie Kazan
I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At its best, acting is not about words - even when the words are important.
‐‐ Mark Margolis
I was a stunt man for 35 years.
‐‐ Richard Farnsworth
I was a stuntman for over fifteen years.
‐‐ Chuck Zito
I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
‐‐ Dan Shechtman
I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete and arrogance, and just thought to myself, 'I think I can write like this.'
‐‐ Josh Elliott
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
‐‐ J. Cole
I was a super nerd in school.
‐‐ Chloe Bridges
I was a super tomboy growing up.
‐‐ Britt Robertson
I was a superhero fan in the '90s, so I'm definitely familiar with John Romita, Jr. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go to local conventions and line up and get his signature.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
‐‐ Chinua Achebe
I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.
‐‐ Allegra Huston
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
‐‐ Craig Venter
I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.
‐‐ Brian J. White
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman
I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
‐‐ Christa Campbell
I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.
‐‐ Stephanie Courtney
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
‐‐ Jon Secada
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.
‐‐ Anita Brookner
I was a teacher once.
‐‐ Nita Ambani
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
‐‐ Shaun Cassidy
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
‐‐ John Cusack
I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.
‐‐ Rae Carson
I was a teenage godmother.
‐‐ Theresa May
I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.
‐‐ Jenny Slate
I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
‐‐ Venus Williams
I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.
‐‐ Sufe Bradshaw
I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.
‐‐ Big Sean
I was a temp for three years in New York when I was auditioning; when I was cast in 'Mad Men,' I was still a temp. I'm good at making copies; I'm good at typing things. I'm good at killing the day and making it look like I'm doing something.
‐‐ Rich Sommer
I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
‐‐ Ira Glass
I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.
‐‐ Edward Hall
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
‐‐ Lisi Harrison
I was a terrible English student.
‐‐ Leon Uris
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
‐‐ David Bailey