All Quotes

I was always told I had to be an example to my siblings. I was told to toe the line. So I had to behave.
‐‐ Teresita Sy-Coson

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
‐‐ Ashley Judd

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.
‐‐ Mika

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.
‐‐ Henry Petroski

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
‐‐ Joe Theismann

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.
‐‐ Mika

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

I was always told you're not going to make much money from writing. You can actually do it. Now I've built a really good, big house out of words.
‐‐ Catherine Jinks

I was always too afraid to slow dance. But I do remember watching people slow dance. I was the guy on the sidelines. At the school dance, I was usually in the band, playing.
‐‐ Babyface

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
‐‐ Maria Callas

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.
‐‐ Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

I was always trying to do things to make school fun.
‐‐ Julie Brown

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.
‐‐ Soleil Moon Frye

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.
‐‐ Linda Hunt

I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
‐‐ Gareth Gates

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.
‐‐ Marina and the Diamonds

I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.
‐‐ James D. Watson

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
‐‐ Paul Auster

I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
‐‐ Rachel Stevens

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.
‐‐ Jane Asher

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.
‐‐ Chade-Meng Tan

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.
‐‐ Margot Robbie

I was always very focused on how people dressed.
‐‐ Larry Gagosian

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
‐‐ Buck Owens

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
‐‐ Jack Wagner

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
‐‐ Sally Ride

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
‐‐ Mike Stoller

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.
‐‐ Kim Fields

I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.
‐‐ Emily Bett Rickards

I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.
‐‐ Debi Thomas

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.
‐‐ Joan Smalls

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.
‐‐ Lynn Coady

I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.
‐‐ Brooke Shields

I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention.
‐‐ Thora Birch

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.
‐‐ Jeremy Sisto

I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
‐‐ King Krule

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
‐‐ Val McDermid

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
‐‐ Gerard Butler