All Quotes

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
‐‐ Tony Dorsett

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.
‐‐ Robby Gordon

I was pretty locked up emotionally as a kid - my family situation was tumultuous. But I was extroverted. So when I was in pain, I would tell jokes instead of expressing myself.
‐‐ Lindsay Wagner

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
‐‐ Michael Jai White

I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
‐‐ Michael Rosenbaum

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.
‐‐ Justin Tuck

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
‐‐ Yvonne Strahovski

I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.
‐‐ Jennifer Damiano

I was pretty obnoxious as a kid.
‐‐ Lorelei Linklater

I was pretty quiet as a child.
‐‐ James Hetfield

I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.
‐‐ Matty Mullins

I was pretty shocked at the appearance of the Galaxy S phone and the extent to which it appeared to copy Apple products and the problems that would create for us.
‐‐ Phil Schiller

I was pretty shy.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.
‐‐ Robert Cray

I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
‐‐ Naturi Naughton

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
‐‐ Gregory Keyes

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
‐‐ Julian McMahon

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
‐‐ Joyce Banda

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
‐‐ Salma Hayek

I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
‐‐ Jennifer Holliday

I was privileged to serve as a judge.
‐‐ Ken Starr

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.
‐‐ Peter Gallagher

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips.
‐‐ Bryce Harper

I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it was a great way of expressing oneself at a moment when I didn't think I could express myself, really. I suddenly had access to this range of emotions and thoughts and feelings that were there in me. I was surprised by that.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
‐‐ Zac Brown

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.
‐‐ Denis Johnson

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.
‐‐ Daniel Okrent

I was probably born with some designing abilities.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
‐‐ Steve Carlton

I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.
‐‐ Todd Barry

I was probably like 13 years old, 14. And I used to walk home doing the beatbox from school. That's how I created it. There was no walkmans back then, no iPods, no CDs. There was just me. Back then there was the boom box.
‐‐ Doug E. Fresh

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
‐‐ Larry Hovis