All Quotes

I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
‐‐ Pete Wentz

I was totally into jazz in my teens.
‐‐ Andy Summers

I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
‐‐ Howie Mandel

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.'
‐‐ Krysten Ritter

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
‐‐ Lykke Li

I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime we have gone from a taboo to even talk about homosexuality, to the sanction by governments of homosexual marriage. Few such large social considerations have ever before been turned over in such a short time.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
‐‐ Samantha Bee

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.
‐‐ Juanes

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
‐‐ Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
‐‐ Jonathan Miller

I was trained as a straight dramatist.
‐‐ Josh Gad

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
‐‐ Jenny Eclair

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.
‐‐ Eliza Coupe

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
‐‐ George Saunders

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
‐‐ Michaela Conlin

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
‐‐ Gene Hackman

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.
‐‐ May-Britt Moser

I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work.
‐‐ Robert Englund

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.
‐‐ Tony Danza

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
‐‐ Ashley Scott

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.
‐‐ Sushmita Banerjee

I was traumatized by the cartoon version of 'The Hobbit.' It's not supposed to be scary, I don't think, but literally I think that's the most scared I've ever been.
‐‐ Emily Meade

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.
‐‐ Shelley Duvall

I was traveling on our tour bus through Europe and I was thinking I want to have long blonde hair.
‐‐ Nina Hagen

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong.
‐‐ Billy Tauzin

I was truly honored to be a part of that game, to be playing the 50th Super Bowl.
‐‐ Peyton Manning

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
‐‐ Claire Forlani

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.
‐‐ Don Winslow

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
‐‐ Lex Luger

I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.
‐‐ Amy Hoggart

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.
‐‐ Leslie Caron

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.
‐‐ Liz Phair

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.
‐‐ Rhonda Byrne

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
‐‐ Sara Blakely

I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
‐‐ Steven Wright