All Quotes

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
‐‐ Alain Prost

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.
‐‐ Antonio Lobo Antunes

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
‐‐ Jim Henson

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
‐‐ Steve Martin

I was very into football in my early teens and spent six months with Aston Villa, but I never really got further than having trials. I'm also into ice hockey.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
‐‐ David Bowie

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
‐‐ Jennifer Sky

I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
‐‐ Rachael Leigh Cook

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.
‐‐ Emma Watson

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
‐‐ Robin Trower

I was very keen on squash. My father used to go to sleep in the afternoon. Normally, in Pakistan, everybody goes to sleep in the afternoon, because it's really hot. I'd go and play without telling anybody.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.
‐‐ Barry McGuire

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.
‐‐ Ray Harryhausen

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
‐‐ Jonathan Shapiro

I was very lucky because hanging out at a golf course was much better than being on the streets. Golf taught me a great deal. I grew up surrounded by people who were professionals - lawyers, doctors, engineers. Around them, I learned how to behave, speak, eat, dress. I had nothing at home. The club was my home.
‐‐ Angel Cabrera

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
‐‐ Helen McCrory

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
‐‐ Richard Donner

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.
‐‐ Pierre Cardin

I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis.
‐‐ Dabney Coleman

I was very lucky in that I had a couple of teachers who were particularly supportive.
‐‐ Michael Gove

I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
‐‐ Victoria Principal

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
‐‐ Madeleine Peyroux

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
‐‐ George Clooney

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
‐‐ Philip Levine

I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

I was very lucky with 'Soap' and 'Who's the Boss,' which was great fun, and then went on 'Coach' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.' I've been truly blessed, and the work has all been fun and a joy.
‐‐ Katherine Helmond

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.
‐‐ Emma Stone

I was very much a child of the Cold War.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.
‐‐ Jim Rash

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.
‐‐ Ashley Wagner

I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.
‐‐ Mary Badham

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
‐‐ Billy Eichner

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
‐‐ Bob Balaban

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
‐‐ Sylvester Stallone