All Quotes

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.
‐‐ Jimmy Carl Black

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
‐‐ Mike Tyson

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
‐‐ Bobby Womack

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
‐‐ Barry Marshall

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known.
‐‐ Eric Millegan

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.
‐‐ Kevin Dillon

I was hoping to get to the NBA, but the Lord took me on a different path.
‐‐ Robbie Jones

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
‐‐ Laurie Metcalf

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.
‐‐ Heather Mills

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
‐‐ Alan Davies

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.
‐‐ David Tennant

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
‐‐ Betty Buckley

I was hungry a coupla' times but for the most part I ate every day... I got to go to school for free.
‐‐ Coolio

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
‐‐ Alonzo Mourning

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
‐‐ Umberto Guidoni

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.
‐‐ George Best

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
‐‐ Liam Payne

I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.
‐‐ Mackenzie Davis

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I was imbued from a very early age with a sense of doom.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
‐‐ Ron Silver

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
‐‐ Harry Mathews

I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.
‐‐ Guy Lafleur

I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S. by farming. They are trained in a four-year program, at the end of which New Roots helps them find their own land to farm and live on.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.
‐‐ Ritchie Blackmore

I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.
‐‐ Denis Villeneuve

I was impressed by the capability and talent and intellect of our troops on the ground. These kids are really impressive.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
‐‐ Hiram Rhodes Revels

I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
‐‐ Pete Fountain

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
‐‐ John Lithgow

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
‐‐ Dick Van Patten

I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
‐‐ T-Pain

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
‐‐ Jamie Lawson

I was in a band called Hooker for a while.
‐‐ Travis Barker

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
‐‐ Bon Scott

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
‐‐ Tim Heidecker

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna