All Quotes

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley

I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior modification to break the cycle. I started by setting an arbitrary time limit on studying: for every 15 minutes of study, I'd allow myself an hour of daydreaming. I set the alarm.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.
‐‐ Rick Reilly

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting.
‐‐ Anthony Geary

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.
‐‐ Henry Ian Cusick

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.
‐‐ Melissa Rauch

I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
‐‐ Natalie Zea

I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
‐‐ Mamie Gummer

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.
‐‐ John Noble

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
‐‐ George Foreman

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

I was a tomboy.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
‐‐ Yvonne Strahovski

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
‐‐ Constance Marie

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hand

I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.
‐‐ Lela Rochon

I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.
‐‐ Minka Kelly

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
‐‐ Natasha Henstridge

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young - most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
‐‐ Taylor Negron

I was a topper till class tenth and wanted to initially be a scientist.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I was a total bad girl growing up.
‐‐ Elizabeth Reaser

I was a total dork in high school.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.
‐‐ Sophia Bush

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
‐‐ Vera Wang

I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I was a total, insane 'Breaking Bad' fan.
‐‐ David Costabile

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
‐‐ Erin Wasson

I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
‐‐ Andrew Wyatt

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.
‐‐ Beth Broderick

I was a total sci-fi geek. 'Star Wars' was my ultimate favorite.
‐‐ Ming-Na Wen

I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.
‐‐ Dan Bucatinsky

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
‐‐ Ben Stein

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
‐‐ John Sergeant Wise

I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.
‐‐ Lauren Oliver

I was a troublemaking kid.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.
‐‐ David Carradine

I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.
‐‐ Patty Duke

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
‐‐ Joan Ganz Cooney