All Quotes

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
‐‐ Lord Mountbatten

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.
‐‐ Jon Stewart

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

I was born with an evil face.
‐‐ Barry Sloane

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.
‐‐ Colton Haynes

I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and I carried it all through my years. I'm 26 now, and I'm still that person. I think every woman needs to have that self-love.
‐‐ Ricki-Lee Coulter

I was born with lots of deformities.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
‐‐ Ray Charles

I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.
‐‐ Robert Winston

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
‐‐ Bow Wow

I was born with six fingers on each hand.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
‐‐ Larry Hagman

I was born with the gift.
‐‐ Joe Namath

I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
‐‐ Dan Feuerriegel

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
‐‐ Steven Cojocaru

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.
‐‐ Hunter Hayes

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
‐‐ Sunny Deol

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
‐‐ Coco Lee

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.
‐‐ Alistair Brownlee

I was briefly bitter.
‐‐ Margot Kidder

I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.
‐‐ Glenn Danzig

I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
‐‐ Fab Five Freddy

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
‐‐ Nigel Rees

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.
‐‐ Evan Williams

I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.
‐‐ Lewis Black

I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.
‐‐ Jenji Kohan

I was brought home to a trailer in Highland, MI.
‐‐ Dax Shepard

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
‐‐ Frank Scott

I was brought to Hollywood by Gene Roddenberry and Michael Eisner, chosen from 600 hopefuls to star in the original 'Star Trek' motion picture. The success of the film, coupled with the allure that I had shaved my head for the role, put a spotlight on me.
‐‐ Persis Khambatta

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
‐‐ Marina Warner

I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.
‐‐ Pauline Collins

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.
‐‐ John Lydon

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.
‐‐ Alan Alda

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
‐‐ Sting

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.
‐‐ Robert Klein

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
‐‐ Michael Trevino

I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.
‐‐ Natascha McElhone

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
‐‐ Sally Quinn