All Quotes

I was just a normal athlete. My mother tried to spark something in me. She was an athlete in high school before she got pregnant with my older brother. She was 16, and that was it for her when it came to track and her education.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
‐‐ Dave Pirner

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.
‐‐ Greg Kinnear

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
‐‐ Jerry Rice

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
‐‐ Djimon Hounsou

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
‐‐ Eddie Floyd

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick.
‐‐ John Hewson

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
‐‐ Sam Simon

I was just another girl.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.
‐‐ Jon Bon Jovi

I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.
‐‐ Philip Treacy

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
‐‐ Iris Johansen

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
‐‐ Jorma Taccone

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.
‐‐ Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.
‐‐ Kyrsten Sinema

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
‐‐ Paul Harding

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.
‐‐ Gene Pitney

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
‐‐ Ed Westwick

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
‐‐ Manny Pacquiao

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
‐‐ Rachel McAdams

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.
‐‐ Elton John

I was just glad to be going to work again.
‐‐ Rebecca De Mornay

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop.
‐‐ John Oates

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
‐‐ Connie Chung

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
‐‐ Kip Winger

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.
‐‐ Joel Madden

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
‐‐ Madeleine Peyroux

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.
‐‐ Ana Castillo

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Fred Korematsu

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
‐‐ Sally Field

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
‐‐ Harold Perrineau

I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
‐‐ Jess Glynne

I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.
‐‐ Sonya Walger

I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
‐‐ Ian Fleming

I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.
‐‐ Sara Shepard

I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.
‐‐ J Mascis

I was just really excited to win the 100m, 200m, and 4x100m in Moscow and then, to top that off, to win the Diamond Race in the 100m and 200m.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce