All Quotes

I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.
‐‐ Big Bank Hank

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
‐‐ Guillermo del Toro

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
‐‐ IO Tillett Wright

I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
‐‐ David Amram

I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
‐‐ Cheech Marin

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
‐‐ Rafael Nadal

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.
‐‐ Jonathan Levine

I was Pee-wee Herman for so many years that it wasn't really a question that I didn't want to do other things.
‐‐ Paul Reubens

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.
‐‐ Charles Comiskey

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!
‐‐ Shakuntala Devi

I was performing from the age of three.
‐‐ Jennifer Ellison

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.
‐‐ Carmen Electra

I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
‐‐ Joseph Murray

I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
‐‐ Owen Paterson

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
‐‐ Ben Carson

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
‐‐ Janet Reno

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
‐‐ Buffalo Bill

I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I was physically abused and I retaliated.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

I was physically addicted to 'Tony Hawk's American Wasteland' for PS2.
‐‐ Awkwafina

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
‐‐ Mark E. Smith

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows

I was Pippa on 'Home And Away' for nearly a decade.
‐‐ Debra Lawrance

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
‐‐ Larry David

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
‐‐ Ben Chandler

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
‐‐ Zhu Zhu

I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
‐‐ Finn Wittrock

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
‐‐ Lindsey Buckingham

I was playing a gig in Greece in September 2003 and this guy walks up to me and says, 'Hey Tiesto I just heard you play; you're amazing. I want you to play at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.' I looked at him, like, 'Sure pal!'
‐‐ Tiesto

I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
‐‐ Robbie Amell

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
‐‐ Christopher Mintz-Plasse