I was playing catch with the European audience.
‐‐ Charles Olson
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
‐‐ Usain Bolt
I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.
‐‐ Jeremy Lin
I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
‐‐ Diplo
I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.
‐‐ Mitchell Joachim
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
‐‐ Ikue Mori
I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
‐‐ Gale Sayers
I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
‐‐ Dan O'Brien
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
‐‐ Charlie Hunnam
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
‐‐ Roger Bannister
I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.
‐‐ Michel Patini
I was playing the piano when I was three, writing songs when I was ten. I had a lot of experience before I got to college. I knew I wanted to be a singer, so anyone who met me, I didn't let too much time pass before I showed my talent.
‐‐ John Legend
I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
‐‐ Malachi Throne
I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.
‐‐ Richard Widmark
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.
‐‐ Kevin Eubanks
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
‐‐ Brownie McGhee
I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
‐‐ Travis Barker
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.
‐‐ Rocco DiSpirito
I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.
‐‐ Robert Kurson
I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.
‐‐ Graeme Le Saux
I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.
‐‐ Rod Steiger
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
‐‐ Gene Tierney
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
‐‐ Imogen Cunningham
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
‐‐ Eminem
I was Popeye mad when I was a kid, and I'd eat spinach until the cows came home.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
‐‐ Fran Drescher
I was possessed by London.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik
I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them.
‐‐ Tony Bennett
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
‐‐ John Pomfret
I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.
‐‐ Richard D. Zanuck
I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
‐‐ Cyrille Aimee
I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
‐‐ Christine Lagarde
I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses, luckily, and backed out, and decided to go to drama school.
‐‐ Sendhil Ramamurthy
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain
I was pregnant with my first child during 'Stop/Kiss,' and for whatever reason, the fact that I was so physically uncomfortable allowed me to be freer in the role.
‐‐ Jessica Hecht
I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.
‐‐ Matthew Ashford
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
‐‐ James Earl Jones
I was president of the show choir, I was kind of a geek, whatever.
‐‐ Christine Woods
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
‐‐ John Otway
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher
I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper
I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.
‐‐ Kunal Nayyar
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
‐‐ Natalie Cole
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
‐‐ Rick Springfield
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
‐‐ Richard Russo
I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I'd buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield
I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
‐‐ Sam Hunt
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler