All Quotes

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.
‐‐ Clark Gregg

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.
‐‐ Roger Rees

I was really shy as a kid.
‐‐ Tim Meadows

I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.
‐‐ Malin Akerman

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.
‐‐ Mickey Sumner

I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.
‐‐ Moises Arias

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
‐‐ Jeff Beck

I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played 'Doctor Who' in the new version and they've all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are.
‐‐ Sophie Aldred

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
‐‐ Cindy Margolis

I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
‐‐ Andre Dubus III

I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal

I was really the first-line editor of the 'House of Night' series. I didn't write that much of the story, and I didn't know what was happening until my mom finished the book and sent it to me because I wanted to read it with fresh eyes as a general reader would.
‐‐ Kristin Cast

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.'
‐‐ Kirstie Alley

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
‐‐ Socrates

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
‐‐ Damien Chazelle

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I'm also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.
‐‐ Kelsey Chow

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.
‐‐ Jake Kasdan

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?
‐‐ Liam Neeson

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.
‐‐ Jill Scott

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
‐‐ Erich von Stroheim

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
‐‐ Billy Graham

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
‐‐ Countee Cullen

I was reared on American TV and films. There was a huge sense of occasion about going to the cinema in Moy in the late 1950s and early '60s, and I absolutely loved those Hollywood sword-and-sandal movies like Ben-Hur and the dime-a-dozen cowboy-and-Indian films, as we then referred to them.
‐‐ Paul Muldoon

I was reared on folk music.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

I was rebellious.
‐‐ Adrian Grenier

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
‐‐ Lauren Potter

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney

I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol.
‐‐ Susan George

I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'
‐‐ Tyler Oakley

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
‐‐ Sting

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
‐‐ Dave Matthews

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
‐‐ Norman Fell

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.
‐‐ Ian Hart

I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

I was reluctant to join Twitter. My biggest concern was, I don't want these thoughts that pop into my brain to be immediately broadcast. There's a danger in that. And also - who cares?
‐‐ Julia Stiles

I was reluctant to start the company that would become Lytro, primarily due to my academic background.
‐‐ Ren Ng

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
‐‐ Reggie Jackson

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
‐‐ Jewel

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'
‐‐ Lynn Nottage

I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
‐‐ Leo Kottke

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
‐‐ Mitchell Zuckoff

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
‐‐ Virginia Gildersleeve

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
‐‐ Julia Glass

I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.
‐‐ David Labrava

I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
‐‐ Bruce Cameron