All Quotes

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

I was the Pink Pansy or whatever, wearing this crazy thing.
‐‐ Kel Mitchell

I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.
‐‐ Holly Madison

I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
‐‐ Jim Webb

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I was the Republican governor of the heavily Democratic state of New Mexico. I focused on good government, and I got it done - just like my running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The people of New Mexico reelected me by a comfortable margin. Ditto for Weld.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

I was the runt of my class. So I got away with the whole 'Oh, he's so cute' thing. I was in upper division math courses, so I would have junior and senior girls in my class, and they'd just sit behind me and play with my hair. I didn't mind that so much.
‐‐ Justin Lee

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
‐‐ Harpo Marx

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
‐‐ Ingrid Bergman

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.
‐‐ Bonnie Langford

I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.
‐‐ Johnny Galecki

I was the singing boy in school.
‐‐ Desiigner

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and helped pay my rent and my classes. Then I'd get one good line or two good scenes. I was building my career and building my own experience and learning technically what it was like to be on a set and all of those things.
‐‐ Cheryl Ladd

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.
‐‐ Max Walker

I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.
‐‐ Jerry Dammers

I was the star of the choir.
‐‐ Jai Rodriguez

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
‐‐ James Arness

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'
‐‐ Jason Alexander

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
‐‐ Bo Jackson

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
‐‐ Lisa Graff

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
‐‐ Tanya Roberts

I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.
‐‐ Sarah Snook

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
‐‐ Katarina Witt

I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file.
‐‐ Alafair Burke

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

I was the worst game show host that ever lived, and I knew it.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
‐‐ Lefty Gomez

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.
‐‐ Katherine Heigl

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.
‐‐ May-Britt Moser

I was the youngest; I had two imperious older brothers - I didn't get to often complete sentences at the dinner table. So writing was a way of saying what nobody asked me to say.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
‐‐ Paula Poundstone

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
‐‐ Jay Mohr

I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.
‐‐ Matt McGorry

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
‐‐ Rick Astley

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
‐‐ Tina Ambani

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
‐‐ Scott Brooks

I was the youngest of six kids, and my brothers and sisters were kind of a lot older than me. And the one sister that was, like, in a close age range - she was five years older than me. She was my closest sister in age, and she was a loser.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I was the youngest of six kids, so yeah, feeding myself was important, but it's not like I was obsessed with food growing up.
‐‐ Jim Gaffigan

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.
‐‐ Robert Webb

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.
‐‐ Kiki Dee