All Quotes

I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney

I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
‐‐ Laila Ali

I was never officially signed with Akon, but it was a shopping deal. That was around the time he was going through some problems with his label at Interscope. I waited, but when a deal didn't happen, I just went out on my own.
‐‐ French Montana

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
‐‐ Kato Kaelin

I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.
‐‐ Michael Socha

I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
‐‐ John Glen

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'
‐‐ Lena Headey

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.
‐‐ Joey Lauren Adams

I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

I was never one of those teenagers who sang into their hairbrush.
‐‐ Keeley Hawes

I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, 'Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?' But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed.
‐‐ Paul Merton

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
‐‐ Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.
‐‐ Sean Quinn

I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
‐‐ Angela Cartwright

I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
‐‐ Jack Kilmer

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
‐‐ Anna Paquin

I was never part of that cliquey girl drama. Most of my friends were guys growing up, so I was never part of that whole toxic energy. It seemed like way too much hassle.
‐‐ Aimee Teegarden

I was never part of the crowd.
‐‐ Jimmy Connors

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recognized that the urban content and the approach seemed very familiar and very connected to the songs that I was doing, the kind of songs that I wanted to write - the songs about the street.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.
‐‐ Kiki Dee

I was never particularly fond of my voice.
‐‐ David Bowie

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.
‐‐ David Gilmour

I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.
‐‐ Britt Ekland

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
‐‐ Lea Michele

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.
‐‐ Tanya Roberts

I was never pushed into the industry. I was a very shy child. I was not one to perform for friends and family at every get-together.
‐‐ Kim Fields

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can't just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.
‐‐ Roland Martin

I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

I was never really a big presence in the home.
‐‐ Dick Ebersol

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.
‐‐ Roy Harper

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.
‐‐ Carrie Snodgress

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.
‐‐ Robert Shaw

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.
‐‐ Charlie McDermott

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.
‐‐ Skrillex

I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
‐‐ Ian McLagan

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.
‐‐ Jules Asner

I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
‐‐ Mick Jones

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.
‐‐ Mick Ronson

I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
‐‐ Zach Galligan

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.
‐‐ Stephanie Zimbalist

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
‐‐ Kanye West