All Quotes

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
‐‐ John Stossel

I was bullied at school.
‐‐ Cameron Russell

I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
‐‐ John Caudwell

I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.
‐‐ Luke Evans

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
‐‐ Liam Payne

I was bullied by a freshman named Jeanine. She was black and supremely racist. Jeanine used to say, 'Brownie, go back to your country. You smell of curry,' or 'Do you smell curry coming?'
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.
‐‐ Tom Ford

I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.
‐‐ Devon Bostick

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'
‐‐ Leo Howard

I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.
‐‐ Charlie Ebersol

I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
‐‐ Chris O'Donnell

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.
‐‐ Roger Andrew Taylor

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
‐‐ Chris Rock

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
‐‐ Chita Rivera

I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.
‐‐ Richard E. Robbins

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
‐‐ Robyn Hitchcock

I was by Ariel Sharon's side on the day it was decided to form Kadima. It was founded in aim to create a government of hope and responsibility.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
‐‐ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
‐‐ Ron White

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.
‐‐ Paul Nurse

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
‐‐ Kelly Osbourne

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.
‐‐ Kit Harington

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow

I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.
‐‐ Kevin Dillon

I was called McG since the day I was born because we were broke and there were three Joes in the house.
‐‐ McG

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'
‐‐ Caroll Spinney

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
‐‐ Fritz Lang

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.
‐‐ Merlin Olsen

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
‐‐ Fernando Torres

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, 'You know, this just isn't the life for me.'
‐‐ Sophie Winkleman

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.
‐‐ Jaimie Alexander

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
‐‐ Jon Voight

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.
‐‐ Michael Carbonaro