All Quotes

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
‐‐ Haley Bennett

I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.
‐‐ Teddy Thompson

I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.
‐‐ Charlotte Sullivan

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
‐‐ Gina Gershon

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.
‐‐ Nina Garcia

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
‐‐ Jamie Campbell Bower

I was obsessed with 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.
‐‐ Sarah Steele

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.
‐‐ Halsey

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.
‐‐ Matt Reeves

I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
‐‐ Allen Covert

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
‐‐ Alexandra Daddario

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt

I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
‐‐ Anne Rice

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
‐‐ John Hughes

I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.
‐‐ Sxip Shirey

I was obsessed with the Canadian novel 'Anne of Green Gables'. I decided I was Anne of Green Gables. There was something that spoke to me about her, and I wanted to have her beautiful red hair.
‐‐ Christina Hendricks

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
‐‐ David Blaine

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet

I was obsessed with 'The Sound of Music.' I always feel nostalgic watching it.
‐‐ Sophie McShera

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.
‐‐ Jessie J

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I got to being a groupie.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.'
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.
‐‐ Ben Silbermann

I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
‐‐ Lena Headey

I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
‐‐ Pam Ferris

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.
‐‐ Lily Cole

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
‐‐ Donald Pleasence

I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer.
‐‐ Pritam Chakraborty

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
‐‐ Ennio Morricone

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
‐‐ Noel Clarke

I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I've no regrets.
‐‐ Ron Moody

I was offered 'I'm A Celebrity...' for a lot of money, but I don't like the level of degradation.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.
‐‐ Jefferson Mays

I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!
‐‐ Ashanti

I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.
‐‐ Peter Scolari

I was offered 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I'm into.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'
‐‐ Meryl Streep

I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible.
‐‐ Luke Evans