All Quotes

I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
‐‐ Trevor Moore

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.
‐‐ Jean Nidetch

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.
‐‐ Jayne Meadows

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
‐‐ Jon Johansen

I was fed up with the situation I found myself in in the 1960s. I didn't like being a barrister's wife and going out to dinner with other professional people and dealing with middle class life. It seemed claustrophobic.
‐‐ Caryl Churchill

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
‐‐ Gabriela Sabatini

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
‐‐ Jim Hodges

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!
‐‐ Jennifer Damiano

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
‐‐ Michael Biehn

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.
‐‐ Lindsey Haun

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
‐‐ Lizzie Andrew Borden

I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
‐‐ Sadie Frost

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
‐‐ Gyorgy Ligeti

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
‐‐ Bill Parcells

I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main baker. One of them said I would make a good monk, but I told him there was a slight problem because I was married.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

I was filming 'The Avengers' when I got the call for 'Rush,' so I went from 215 pounds, which is how much I weigh when I'm playing Thor, down to about 185 pounds to be able to fit into the car. That was all in about four months.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.
‐‐ Emeli Sande

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.
‐‐ Billy Porter

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.
‐‐ Charlie Simpson

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
‐‐ Lee Child

I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success.
‐‐ Jon Kyl

I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.
‐‐ Richard J. Roberts

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
‐‐ Colm Toibin

I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to 'Paradise City' by Guns 'N Roses, which he had concealed within his hoodie. He put the headphones over my ears and I was completely blown away by what I heard. I'll never forget that.
‐‐ Darren Robinson

I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
‐‐ Etgar Keret

I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original wave of paranormal and am the leader of the new wave of paranormal that started at the beginning of this century.
‐‐ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.
‐‐ Matt Drudge

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.
‐‐ Jenna Ushkowitz

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.
‐‐ Claire Coffee

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.
‐‐ Shakira

I was five years old, onstage singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' - a rock version - and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
‐‐ Jana Kramer

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
‐‐ Shmuel Yosef Agnon

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.
‐‐ Paul Hogan

I was flying to the Maldives in 2000 when the plane went through turbulence - after that, I didn't fly for four years. Then a job came up in India, so I did a simulator flight and learnt about what goes on in the cockpit. I'm fine now.
‐‐ Paul Merton

I was flying with my brother, and he challenged me to work out on the airplane. He thought it was funny - and I did it!
‐‐ Izabel Goulart

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
‐‐ Joe Namath

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.
‐‐ Colin Angle