All Quotes

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

I was maybe 10 or 11 when I saw 'Titanic.' And, yes, I was a fan. I loved it.
‐‐ Ellen Page

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.
‐‐ Jana Novotna

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

I was MCing in the playground, spitting lyrics over mobile phones - Sony Ericsson, Walkmans, W810s, the Teardrop Nokia phones, all of that. Vital equipment! I never even had a DJ set where a DJ's playing vinyl, and I'm spitting.
‐‐ Stormzy

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
‐‐ Samuel Barber

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.
‐‐ John Lasseter

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
‐‐ Muddy Waters

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.
‐‐ Joe Shuster

I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
‐‐ Bob Ainsworth

I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
‐‐ Mr. T

I was miserable as a kid.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
‐‐ Eddie Guerrero

I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.
‐‐ Richard Beymer

I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.
‐‐ Vanity

I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
‐‐ Victoria Azarenka

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.
‐‐ Simone Biles

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.
‐‐ Hunter Tylo

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five - this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
‐‐ Danny Masterson

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.
‐‐ Alexis Bledel

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

I was more active pregnant than I ever was not pregnant. I was doing Body By Simone five days a week. That definitely helped me shed the weight after giving birth. But it's all smoke and mirrors, too. People on Instagram forget that you're showing them what you want them to see. We have filters.
‐‐ Chrissy Teigen

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.
‐‐ Elton John

I was more comfortable with guys growing up, but now I find myself more comfortable in my own skin and open to people, regardless of their gender or popularity or any other label, as a result.
‐‐ Gillian Zinser

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
‐‐ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that the baby gets. And my older brothers were getting into so much trouble that I was left in the middle, doing plays. I was up to no good, but my mother didn't know it!
‐‐ John C. Reilly

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
‐‐ Melinda Clarke

I was more of a weightlifter.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.
‐‐ Ari Graynor

I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
‐‐ Connie Stevens

I was more than just a moody artist.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.
‐‐ Jim Ryun

I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.
‐‐ Bille August

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
‐‐ Tony Iommi

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
‐‐ Alice Sebold