All Quotes

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
‐‐ Raf Simons

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
‐‐ Gary Cherone

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
‐‐ Bailey Chase

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
‐‐ Sidney Hook

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
‐‐ Jim Capaldi

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
‐‐ Jack Kirby

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.
‐‐ Evan Dando

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.
‐‐ Michael Steinhardt

I was happiest between the waves.
‐‐ Gertrude Ederle

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
‐‐ Rick Allen

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
‐‐ Daniel Boone

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.
‐‐ Nia Long

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better.
‐‐ Nick Johnson

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
‐‐ Indira Gandhi

I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
‐‐ Jonny Greenwood

I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
‐‐ Krzysztof Kieslowski

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.
‐‐ Stu Jackson

I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I don't believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.
‐‐ Claire Cameron

I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
‐‐ Florence Welch

I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
‐‐ Raekwon

I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
‐‐ Adam Driver

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

I was having my teens in my 30s.
‐‐ Julie Walters

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.
‐‐ Jenny Lawson

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
‐‐ Randy Jackson

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.
‐‐ John Tavener

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
‐‐ Allan Sherman

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'
‐‐ Richard MacDonald

I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
‐‐ Jason Schwartzman

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.
‐‐ Howard Coble

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
‐‐ David Cross

I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
‐‐ Andra Day