All Quotes

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

I was in Redwood for almost six years. It was an acoustic trio that I still think was the best band I've ever been a part of. We do have a double CD of the Redwood stuff available called 'Lost But Not Really.' I'm very proud of the old Redwood stuff.
‐‐ Bill Mumy

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
‐‐ Deana Carter

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.
‐‐ Jesse L. Martin

I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
‐‐ Taylor Kinney

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.
‐‐ Dylan O'Brien

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.
‐‐ Afrojack

I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.
‐‐ Thuy Trang

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'
‐‐ Casey Nicholaw

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.
‐‐ Marla Sokoloff

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'
‐‐ Freddie Prinze

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.
‐‐ Dick Costolo

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.
‐‐ J. G. Ballard

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
‐‐ Anne Fortier

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out - see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that.
‐‐ Giorgio Moroder

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.
‐‐ Johnny Thunders

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
‐‐ Lee Child

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.
‐‐ Sinbad

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.
‐‐ Tony La Russa

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.
‐‐ Mitch Leigh

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
‐‐ Mel Brooks

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.
‐‐ Trent Dilfer

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
‐‐ Drew Carey

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an understanding of what it meant to be a pitcher at that level at that point.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
‐‐ Ted Stevens

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.
‐‐ Cliff Martinez

I was in the class they made 'The Social Network' about.
‐‐ Trip Adler

I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
‐‐ Richard Roundtree

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.
‐‐ Theresa May

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
‐‐ Nancy Grace

I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me - I don't know why!
‐‐ Nicholas Braun

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
‐‐ Terence Winter

I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
‐‐ Bill Veeck

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
‐‐ Taylor Lautner

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.
‐‐ Common

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
‐‐ Rahul Dravid

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.
‐‐ John Newcombe

I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
‐‐ John Patrick Shanley

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.
‐‐ Star Jones

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.
‐‐ David Duval