All Quotes

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
‐‐ Tucker Max

I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.
‐‐ Roger Lloyd-Pack

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
‐‐ Harriet Walter

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho

I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned.
‐‐ Psy

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.
‐‐ Daniela Hantuchova

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I was not funny growing up.
‐‐ Tim Meadows

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
‐‐ Georg Brandes

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I was not going to balance the budgets on the backs of communities.
‐‐ Dannel Malloy

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.
‐‐ Colin Kaepernick

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
‐‐ Dennis Lehane

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.
‐‐ Tom Ford

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
‐‐ Mike Weir

I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.
‐‐ Lou Brock

I was not influenced by any artists.
‐‐ Andrae Crouch

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
‐‐ Edgard Varese

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
‐‐ Bebe Neuwirth

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.
‐‐ Patty Hearst

I was not interested by cinema when I was young.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.
‐‐ Leon Wieseltier

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

I was not making enough time to take care of me.
‐‐ Kathy Ireland

I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
‐‐ Frances Fisher

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.
‐‐ Nikolaas Tinbergen

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.
‐‐ Shania Twain

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I was not only a billionaire but the richest man in Turkey. It's a great feeling, but your responsibilities increase.
‐‐ Husnu Ozyegin

I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
‐‐ Yakov Smirnoff

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
‐‐ Alice Duer Miller

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

I was not paying attention during physics in high school; I was wondering if I was going to be cast in 'Pippin.'
‐‐ John Benjamin Hickey

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.
‐‐ Tom Ford

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.
‐‐ Al Pacino

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.
‐‐ David Naughton

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.
‐‐ Annette Funicello

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
‐‐ Michael Smith