All Quotes

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
‐‐ Travis Barker

I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I was told that Ganesha sat between Lakshmi and Saraswati. My quest to attain the blessings of both goddesses explains my physique.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
‐‐ Merce Cunningham

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.
‐‐ Marianne Faithfull

I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldn't possibly be thought of as gay.
‐‐ Sean Maher

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.
‐‐ Tony McCoy

I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
‐‐ Rain

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
‐‐ Neale Donald Walsch

I was told to have an ice bath once, which I did once, and it was the most horrific experience. In my head it sounded like a great idea, so I filled my bath with ice and water, and it was absolutely horrendous.
‐‐ Antony Starr

I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.
‐‐ LeAnn Rimes

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tate

I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home.
‐‐ Penny Jordan

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
‐‐ Ronnie Montrose

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.
‐‐ Lennart Meri

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
‐‐ George Lindsey

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
‐‐ Leon Uris

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'
‐‐ Jennifer Grey

I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!
‐‐ Meg Cabot

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
‐‐ Andy Stern

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
‐‐ Naomie Harris

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
‐‐ Laurie Metcalf

I was too practical to want to be a painter.
‐‐ Paul Rand

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
‐‐ Edmund White

I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.
‐‐ Alessia Cara

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
‐‐ John Deacon

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.
‐‐ Shalom Harlow

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.
‐‐ Chelsea Leyland

I was too young to have watched '90210.'
‐‐ Megan Fox

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
‐‐ James Stockdale

I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
‐‐ Kellie Pickler

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.
‐‐ David Guterson

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.
‐‐ Jennifer Damiano

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

I was totally humbled by how hard it is to create a product every day that needs to be made from scratch.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk