All Quotes

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
‐‐ T. Boone Pickens

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.
‐‐ James Caan

I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
‐‐ Justin Chadwick

I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.
‐‐ Jennifer Chiaverini

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.
‐‐ Robert Darnton

I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.
‐‐ Pete Ploszek

I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
‐‐ Candice Accola

I was very fortunate to have gone to drama school in London for three years, and that was classical training in the sense that a lot of it was dominated by stage work, so I would love to go back to stage.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
‐‐ Larry Fitzgerald

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
‐‐ Larry David

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
‐‐ Charlotte Rampling

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

I was very good at my work and I wasn't real good at my life.
‐‐ Bob Greene

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
‐‐ A. J. Jacobs

I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
‐‐ Tamara Tunie

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
‐‐ Oleg Deripaska

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
‐‐ Jim Davis

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
‐‐ Fawn Hall

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
‐‐ Joan Kirner

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

I was very happy with the success of 'Noise/Funk,' but of course, there is a lot more that I have to say about the dance, about the history, about the people involved with the dance and their history.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I was very honored to get to be part of 'American Idol.'
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I was very hungry to compete internationally when I was 10 years old, and I was good enough to compete, so that part never made me afraid or worried at all. When I was at my peak, around 12 and 13, I won my junior national and senior national titles back to back.
‐‐ Dominique Moceanu

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
‐‐ Mickey Rourke

I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
‐‐ Peter Berg

I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
‐‐ Jose Andres

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
‐‐ Ralph Lauren

I was very influenced by the films of the '70s.
‐‐ Lisa Cholodenko

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
‐‐ Ann Patchett

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
‐‐ Rain

I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
‐‐ Nate Parker

I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
‐‐ George Hickenlooper

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.
‐‐ Jill Sobule

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
‐‐ Ted Nelson

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.
‐‐ Lorelei Linklater

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
‐‐ Norman MacCaig