All Quotes

I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
‐‐ Nanci Griffith

I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
‐‐ Ian Anderson

I was always more of an academic than a jock.
‐‐ Edwin Moses

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
‐‐ Jeffrey Brown

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
‐‐ Joan Allen

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
‐‐ Susan Boyle

I was always my own person.
‐‐ Little Richard

I was always... naive enough to not know what I could not accomplish.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake Off' is a happy show; there is no bad language, and although we do have drama, we deal with it calmly.
‐‐ Mary Berry

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world.
‐‐ Mike Wallace

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.
‐‐ Blake Lively

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.
‐‐ Holly Madison

I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
‐‐ Betty Who

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.
‐‐ Jordin Sparks

I was always on my swag since I was younger.
‐‐ Desiigner

I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'
‐‐ Eliza Taylor

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
‐‐ Angie Stone

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
‐‐ Jack Jones

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.
‐‐ Steve Vai

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.
‐‐ David Boreanaz

I was always opinionated.
‐‐ Kim Novak

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
‐‐ David LaChapelle

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
‐‐ Keith Emerson

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
‐‐ Sally Kellerman

I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.
‐‐ Seth Gabel

I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'
‐‐ Olivia Colman

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I was always pretty funny with my friends.
‐‐ Kenan Thompson

I was always pretty good at designing things.
‐‐ Yves Rossy

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
‐‐ Nora Ephron

I was always proud on 'Party of Five'. We never had the biggest audience, but we had arguably the most loyal.
‐‐ Scott Wolf

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
‐‐ Joe Mantello

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
‐‐ Claire Forlani

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.
‐‐ Aly Raisman

I was always really into the music rather than the scene.
‐‐ Rhona Mitra

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.
‐‐ Michael Chang

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood