All Quotes

I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
‐‐ Nicky Oppenheimer

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
‐‐ Julia Child

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
‐‐ Stan Coveleski

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I was never a Trekkie, nor a science fiction guy.
‐‐ Brian Binnie

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!
‐‐ John C. Reilly

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.
‐‐ John Wozniak

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
‐‐ Robert Sheckley

I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.
‐‐ Julie Warner

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.
‐‐ David Tepper

I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
‐‐ Katherine Helmond

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
‐‐ Colin Farrell

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.
‐‐ Debra Monk

I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
‐‐ Pamela Anderson

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
‐‐ Edmund White

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.
‐‐ Kathy Bates

I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.
‐‐ Kelis

I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
‐‐ Kate Moss

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
‐‐ Thomas Keneally

I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I was never at my best when I was at my worst. When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.
‐‐ Jeff Tweedy

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
‐‐ Siouxsie Sioux

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.
‐‐ Tiesto

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.
‐‐ Atul Gawande

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.
‐‐ Antony Sher

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
‐‐ Mary-Kate Olsen

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.
‐‐ Debi Gliori

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
‐‐ Steve Fossett

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
‐‐ Erik Larson

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
‐‐ Silvio Berlusconi

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was always my starting point, you know.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
‐‐ Moby

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
‐‐ Connie Francis

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
‐‐ Joe Frazier

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
‐‐ Anna Chancellor

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
‐‐ Don Cornelius