All Quotes

I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.
‐‐ John Krasinski

I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
‐‐ Mary Steenburgen

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.
‐‐ Kim Dickens

I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn't start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you're in a boy band, you kinda have to.
‐‐ Drew Lachey

I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'
‐‐ David Douglas Duncan

I was a 'Warcraft' player myself, and when I pitched my take on the film, they said right away, 'That is a player. That is the game.' So I've had their support from the very beginning.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
‐‐ James Ellroy

I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.
‐‐ Antony Sher

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
‐‐ John Legend

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
‐‐ Pamela Dean

I was a weird kid.
‐‐ Jill Sobule

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.
‐‐ Kiesza

I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
‐‐ Halsey

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
‐‐ Nell Carter

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
‐‐ Annie Besant

I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.
‐‐ Kelly Carlson

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.
‐‐ Shirley Bassey

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.
‐‐ Eric Close

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
‐‐ Adrien Brody

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
‐‐ Charles Dance

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
‐‐ Jeane Kirkpatrick

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.
‐‐ Grace Paley

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.
‐‐ Joe Namath

I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor.
‐‐ Dan Millman

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
‐‐ Frank Grillo

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.
‐‐ Andrew Tobias

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton

I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.
‐‐ Robin Zander

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
‐‐ Gillian Armstrong

I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
‐‐ Edie Falco

I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.
‐‐ Alex Rocco

I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I was a young-un when I got my first million. Then I realized if I got one, I could get two. If I could get two, I could get ten. If I could get ten, I could get a hundred.
‐‐ Birdman

I was a youngster looking up to dudes like Vicky McClure, Joe Dempsie and Michael Socha - in fact, he was a big influence on how I was able to detach drama from the all-singing, all-dancing stigma.
‐‐ Jack O'Connell