All Quotes

I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.
‐‐ Michael Palin

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
‐‐ Nichelle Nichols

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

I was very blessed with 'N Sync. It was a big success and it was a lot of fun.
‐‐ Chris Kirkpatrick

I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
‐‐ The Weeknd

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
‐‐ George C. Marshall

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
‐‐ Lucy Punch

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
‐‐ Pete Waterman

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.
‐‐ Edward Lampert

I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
‐‐ Vanessa Kerry

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.
‐‐ Tori Amos

I was very close with my mother growing up. I have four older sisters who were an important part of my life. And I've been very close to all the women I've dated. I feel most comfortable around women.
‐‐ Jamie Johnson

I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?
‐‐ Isabel Sanford

I was very comfortable on the set of 'Lost'. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the 'Lost' episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.
‐‐ Hiroyuki Sanada

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
‐‐ David Antin

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
‐‐ Marat Safin

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
‐‐ Paul Sarbanes

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
‐‐ Ray Walston

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
‐‐ Norman Jewison

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
‐‐ Terence Stamp

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a 'Single Ladies' for their artist, or a Puffy move.
‐‐ Laurieann Gibson

I was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'
‐‐ Eliza Coupe

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
‐‐ Aaron Paul

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.
‐‐ Charles H. Townes

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.
‐‐ Elisabeth Rohm

I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
‐‐ Cory Hardrict

I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
‐‐ Laetitia Casta

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.
‐‐ Glenn Hughes

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
‐‐ Joe Perry

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

I was very flattered when Disney Junior reached out and invited me to come voice Ariel for this special primetime edition of 'Sofia the First.' As the parent myself, I really appreciate the positive messages that this animated series is trying to put out there.
‐‐ Jodi Benson

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.
‐‐ Susan Downey

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite.
‐‐ Paul Johnson

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.
‐‐ Josh Hutcherson

I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together.
‐‐ Kumar Mangalam Birla

I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
‐‐ Jack Horner

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
‐‐ John Wells