All Quotes

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
‐‐ Ray Davies

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.
‐‐ Roger Rees

I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.
‐‐ Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.
‐‐ Jacquelyn Jablonski

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
‐‐ Chris Pratt

I was an athlete when I was growing up.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

I was an average kid who had his wimpy moments.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I was an avid Pokemon card collector.
‐‐ Flume

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I was an avid swimmer and was state champ at age 12.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I was an avid tomboy, and as long as I could ride my bike just as fast, hit the ball just as hard, and catch just as many garter snakes, I was accepted as one of the boys and enjoyed all the perks of superiority.
‐‐ Tawni O'Dell

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I was an awkward kid.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
‐‐ Alan Bradley

I was an early reader, reading even before kindergarten, and since we did not have books in my home, my older brother, Alexander, was responsible for our trip every week to the public library to exchange books already read for new ones to be read.
‐‐ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
‐‐ Sage Stallone

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
‐‐ Henry Kravis

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
‐‐ Herb Ritts

I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
‐‐ Doreen Cronin

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

I was an elementary school teacher.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

I was an Elvis freak. That's all I listened to growing up.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'
‐‐ Peter Higgs

I was an emotional basket case.
‐‐ Jennifer Capriati

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

I was an English major.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
‐‐ Garrison Keillor

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
‐‐ James Franco

I was an English major at Yale, but I did do undergraduate theater there. And I went to the graduate school for acting.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

I was an English major in college!
‐‐ Maggie Siff

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
‐‐ John Legend

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
‐‐ Sue Grafton

I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I found Slott's version of 'She-Hulk' first, and then I went back and looked up some of the older stuff because I liked it so much. And it was so good. It was perfect. It was my perfect comic book at the time that I found it.
‐‐ Charles Soule

I was an entertainer, ever since I was a kid.
‐‐ Micky Dolenz

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.'
‐‐ Jennie Garth

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.'
‐‐ Louie Gohmert

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz