All Quotes

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.
‐‐ Pauline Neville-Jones

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the 'compassionate mother' or whatever.
‐‐ Michael Learned

I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.
‐‐ Jiang Qing

I was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. As you know, there are twelve banks and they have their citizens board, and I got elected to the Fed Chairmanship for the Federal Reserve Kansas City Bank back in the mid-'90s. It might have been 1995-'96.
‐‐ Herman Cain

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'
‐‐ Elliott Gould

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.
‐‐ Didi Conn

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
‐‐ Tao Okamoto

I was christened Duncan Zowie Jones.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
‐‐ Bear Grylls

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!
‐‐ Julie Bowen

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.
‐‐ Blake Lively

I was classically trained. But more than just the fact that I play violin, there's a lot of classical elements in the way I write, in the way I hear chords. A lot of times, I think of my songs as a symphony made out of electronics rather than instruments. And I love to do orchestral arrangements of my songs after they're done.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.
‐‐ Clare Bowen

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.
‐‐ Salman Khan

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.
‐‐ Pete Best

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.
‐‐ Bokeem Woodbine

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
‐‐ Robert Quine

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.
‐‐ Sharon Lawrence

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.
‐‐ Daniela Pestova

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
‐‐ James Stockdale

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
‐‐ Natasha Tsakos

I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
‐‐ Paula Hawkins

I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.
‐‐ John Hurt

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.
‐‐ Christopher Koch

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hurley

I was completely nuts for most of my life.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I was completely open to learning about different aspects of Scientology... and I believe in a lot of it.
‐‐ Justin Chatwin

I was completely shocked that Prince would even know my name.
‐‐ Rita Ora

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet, and 100 pounds came off.
‐‐ Josh Young

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
‐‐ Adam McKay

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.
‐‐ Demi Lovato

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.
‐‐ JoBeth Williams

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.
‐‐ Rupert Graves

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
‐‐ Ed Harris

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible.
‐‐ Sarah Polley

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
‐‐ Bill Scott

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.
‐‐ Louis Freeh