All Quotes

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.
‐‐ Dev Anand

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
‐‐ Robert Indiana

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.
‐‐ Jacques Audiard

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
‐‐ Julie Walters

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.
‐‐ Robert Knepper

I was the little sister that was annoying.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.
‐‐ Kid Rock

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
‐‐ Bette Davis

I was the middle of five children, and we were five very opinionated siblings. That probably pushed me to learn to speak up for myself.
‐‐ Helene D. Gayle

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
‐‐ Mem Fox

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I was the most subtle person in the world.
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
‐‐ Marlon James

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
‐‐ Ronald Perelman

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.
‐‐ Lee Daniels

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
‐‐ Pete Hamill

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.
‐‐ Robert Rodriguez

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
‐‐ John Prescott

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.
‐‐ Amy Chua

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'
‐‐ Nicole Richie

I was the one that was always dancing and got along with everybody, but I also spoke my mind. If I didn't agree with something the teacher would say, I'd tell her, so I would get in trouble for things like that. I've always been a good/bad boy.
‐‐ Shameik Moore

I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'
‐‐ Carmen Dell'Orefice

I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels.
‐‐ John Barrowman

I was the one who was always calling people.
‐‐ Nancy Reagan

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
‐‐ Grace Jones

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
‐‐ Isabel Sanford

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
‐‐ Victoria Jackson

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.
‐‐ Sid Vicious

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.
‐‐ Terry J. Lundgren

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
‐‐ Douglas Adams

I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
‐‐ Duncan Jones

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.
‐‐ Cristina Saralegui

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
‐‐ Rick Rubin

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
‐‐ Esther Williams

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
‐‐ David Reuben

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
‐‐ Evelyn Keyes

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
‐‐ Bob Cousy

I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video.
‐‐ Jodi Benson

I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani