All Quotes

I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
‐‐ Jenny Agutter

I was really good at being a bad guy.
‐‐ Ric Flair

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.
‐‐ Ric Flair

I was really good at manicures, facials and make-up.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day... And it's a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.
‐‐ Elle Varner

I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
‐‐ Caitlin Flanagan

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.
‐‐ Jewel

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang

I was really interested in meeting Peter Coyote.
‐‐ Joel Gretsch

I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.
‐‐ Emily Berrington

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
‐‐ Kip Winger

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.
‐‐ Jake Johnson

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

I was really into films when I was younger, but I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn't know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn't want to do any of the courses.
‐‐ Aidan Turner

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
‐‐ Ieva Laguna

I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
‐‐ Cush Jumbo

I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.
‐‐ Ben Lovett

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
‐‐ Sean Durkin

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
‐‐ Ali MacGraw

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.
‐‐ Matt Mickiewicz

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
‐‐ Christiane Amanpour

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
‐‐ Little Richard

I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
‐‐ Al Jarreau

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
‐‐ Ray LaMontagne

I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.
‐‐ Ana Ortiz

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.
‐‐ Bob Geldof

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
‐‐ James Badge Dale

I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
‐‐ Dan Rather

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
‐‐ Donny Most

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.
‐‐ Rupert Grint

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
‐‐ Kate Moss

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick

I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important.
‐‐ Pele

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
‐‐ Bel Powley

I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.
‐‐ John Tesh

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.
‐‐ Amanda Marshall

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.
‐‐ Dita Von Teese

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people.
‐‐ Alex Graves