All Quotes

I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.
‐‐ Gary Lineker

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.
‐‐ Jonah Lomu

I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched hard in the back. I couldn't put my back up on the plane seat because of the pain. I got massages, thinking it was muscle spasms. The doctor told me at the time that it was my pancreas. I didn't even know.
‐‐ Sharon Jones

I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!
‐‐ Ricky Martin

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
‐‐ Gary Johnson

I was opposed to the government telling me how to practice medicine when I was a doctor.
‐‐ Robert J. Bentley

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
‐‐ Douglass North

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
‐‐ Orson Pratt

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
‐‐ Janis Karpinski

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'
‐‐ Marina Sirtis

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
‐‐ James Lipton

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.
‐‐ Eugene Jarvis

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
‐‐ Etta James

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.
‐‐ Justin Zackham

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
‐‐ Herman Hesse

I was out of the house at 16 by my own doing. It forced me to really grow up and take care of myself, and I learned a lot of things that your parents usually teach you, on my own.
‐‐ Kehlani

I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
‐‐ Mac Davis

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.
‐‐ Harvey Keitel

I was out with my mum when a man started screaming at me: 'Georgia Groome. I love you.' Mum and I just looked at each other for a split second - and then ran away as fast as we could.
‐‐ Georgia Groome

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
‐‐ Francine Busby

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
‐‐ Beth Ditto

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
‐‐ Boman Irani

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.
‐‐ Paul Desmond

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.
‐‐ Henry Cavill

I was overwhelmed by how military families felt supported and honored by 'Nubs.'
‐‐ Kirby Larson

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.
‐‐ Isamu Akasaki

I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.
‐‐ Katie Stevens

I was overwhelmed with messages of support I received from people around the rugby world. Sometimes you take it for granted, but I can't thank people enough for how much they supported me.
‐‐ Matthew Rees

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
‐‐ Tom Shadyac

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.
‐‐ George Cole

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
‐‐ Vaclav Klaus

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
‐‐ Alex Flinn

I was painfully shy as a child.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.
‐‐ Christian Cooke

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
‐‐ Richard Donner

I was pampered in the fact that I had five older brothers, which I highly recommend to anyone.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
‐‐ Howard Fast

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I was part of a government that tried to resolve the question of Kosovo by war. Perhaps there is some justice that today I should be the person most responsible for finding a peaceful solution.
‐‐ Ivica Dacic