All Quotes

I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.
‐‐ Grant Hill

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
‐‐ Trey Gowdy

I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.
‐‐ Kristin Chenoweth

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs

I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as a series. During the hiatus, the only job I auditioned for that fit my schedule was 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' That's the real reason I said yes.
‐‐ Robert Englund

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
‐‐ John Niven

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.
‐‐ Alex Spanos

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.
‐‐ Tony Randall

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.
‐‐ Kris Holden-Ried

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
‐‐ Tate Donovan

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.
‐‐ Robert B. Parker

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
‐‐ Bob Filner

I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
‐‐ Robert Blake

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.
‐‐ Rocco DiSpirito

I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
‐‐ Claudio Reyna

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
‐‐ Aaron Paul

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.'
‐‐ Ashley Benson

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
‐‐ Lizzie Andrew Borden

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.
‐‐ Betty Hill

I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm going to do the Don Loper fashion show from 'I Love Lucy.'
‐‐ Tom Ford

I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.
‐‐ John Cullum

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.
‐‐ Dianna Agron

I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.
‐‐ Steven Cojocaru

I was on tour with Little Dragon with the Gorillaz. She's got an amazing voice and is a lovely girl. Her vibe is fresh pressed and harmless fun with a tinge of the dark side if you look in the right bits of the tunes.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry

I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
‐‐ Cris Judd

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.
‐‐ Lilla Crawford

I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
‐‐ Kathryn Hahn

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
‐‐ Jack Dee

I was once a fairly angry person.
‐‐ Scott Rudin

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
‐‐ Linda Lael Miller

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
‐‐ Gwen Moore

I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
‐‐ Alan Parker

I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.
‐‐ Brea Grant