All Quotes

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?
‐‐ Charles Schwab

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
‐‐ Peter Gallagher

I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, 'You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God.'
‐‐ Adele

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
‐‐ Don Cheadle

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.
‐‐ Nigel Rees

I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.
‐‐ Elise Andrew

I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
‐‐ Patrick Macnee

I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

I was absolutely obsessed with the Titanic - not the film, the actual boat. I'd draw diagrams about it and theorise that if it was built in a different way, it wouldn't have sunk.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.
‐‐ Aron Ralston

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.
‐‐ Ashton Irwin

I was acting when I was playing baseball.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.
‐‐ Lexa Doig

I was actually a Cowboys fan.
‐‐ Victor Cruz

I was actually a huge tomboy growing up.
‐‐ Julia Jones

I was actually a poetry major in college before I punted and decided to become a theater major. I wrote the poem that we put on the sauerkraut boxes in the style of Elling.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
‐‐ Sam Harris

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!
‐‐ Kellan Lutz

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I was born to a single mom. She was a wonderful woman, and she taught me to believe in myself, to work hard, play by the rules. She wanted me to get a good education, and she just told me that the best thing I could do is just study hard.
‐‐ Raul Labrador

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
‐‐ Portia Simpson-Miller

I was actually born in Miami. We would spend the summers there growing up, so it's like my second home.
‐‐ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.
‐‐ Jandy Nelson

I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home town, so I think that qualifies me as a Jersey resident if not a bona fide native.
‐‐ Sharon Kay Penman

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

I was actually cut out of 'L.A. Story'... and rightfully so.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

I was actually discovered by Kai Millard and Stevie Wonder.
‐‐ Andra Day

I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.
‐‐ Jasmine Tookes

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to law school in 1972.
‐‐ Frank Shorter

I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
‐‐ David Sanborn

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
‐‐ Kelly Preston

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
‐‐ Brian May

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
‐‐ Lance Gross

I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
‐‐ Adam Clayton

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
‐‐ Daisy Ridley

I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!
‐‐ Jonathan Levine

I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side.
‐‐ Tori Kelly

I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'
‐‐ Dave Bautista

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
‐‐ Zendaya

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
‐‐ David R. Brower