All Quotes

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.
‐‐ Bob Weir

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it.
‐‐ Trombone Shorty

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.
‐‐ Russell Smith

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.
‐‐ Jeff Gannon

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
‐‐ Eartha Kitt

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.
‐‐ Jeff Gannon

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
‐‐ Jake Owen

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

I was given the opportunity to run a business, but on that very same day, I understood that it comes with a lot of responsibility, and responsibility comes at a price.
‐‐ Ofra Strauss

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
‐‐ Rajeev Shukla

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

I was glad I liked chemistry.
‐‐ Andy Grove

I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'
‐‐ Joe Wurzelbacher

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
‐‐ Ezra Cornell

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
‐‐ Leon Day

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
‐‐ Jack Carroll

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
‐‐ John Trudell

I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well with that dance-type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar, and I've always wanted to find that.
‐‐ Matt Bellamy

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.
‐‐ Rob Corddry

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
‐‐ David Hyde Pierce

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
‐‐ Julia Child

I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

I was going to be a scientist.
‐‐ Ben Okri

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
‐‐ Michael Easton

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
‐‐ James Stewart

I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
‐‐ John Mahoney

I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.
‐‐ Matthew Moy

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then, and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.
‐‐ Stephen Graham

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.
‐‐ Jay London

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman.
‐‐ Sophie Winkleman

I was going to college to be a doctor.
‐‐ Natalie Cole