All Quotes

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
‐‐ Cathleen Schine

I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.
‐‐ Margaret Qualley

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

I was one of those kids who always wrote.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.
‐‐ Gina McKee

I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.
‐‐ John Krasinski

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.
‐‐ Lauren Worsham

I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British.
‐‐ Riley Keough

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading novels. It took quite a long time for me to realize there are better ways.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.
‐‐ Rebecca Black

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
‐‐ Anna Chancellor

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
‐‐ Tony Shalhoub

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.
‐‐ Jane Krakowski

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
‐‐ Karen Gillan

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
‐‐ Michael Lynton

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
‐‐ Tatyana Ali

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
‐‐ Billy Saunders

I was only 21 when I bought a five-bedroom detached house in Stoke-on-Trent that was way outside of my financial status in life. I did it by borrowing money from my family and the bank, taking out a huge mortgage.
‐‐ John Caudwell

I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
‐‐ Laura Donnelly

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
‐‐ Marion Jones

I was only 24 years old when a lady called Sabina Sehgal Saikia - the then 'Delhi Times' editor - asked me to host the 'Times Food Guide Awards,' so it was with The 'Times of India' that my career began in this field.
‐‐ Vir Das

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of 'Apollo 11,' descended the cramped lunar module Eagle's ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.
‐‐ Bob Feller

I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
‐‐ Jim Lovell

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
‐‐ Robin Williams

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.
‐‐ Bobby Sands

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'
‐‐ Allison Williams

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
‐‐ Marie Curie

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years.
‐‐ Nicole Sullivan

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
‐‐ John Cusack