All Quotes

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.
‐‐ Freema Agyeman

I was very much of a tomboy.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
‐‐ John Polkinghorne

I was very much surprised by the Johnson/Gove proposals to make it harder for Europeans to work in the U.K. if Britain were to vote to leave the E.U.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.
‐‐ Janet McTeer

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.
‐‐ Marcel Carne

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.
‐‐ Jenna Dewan

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.
‐‐ Thomas Dolby

I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'
‐‐ Ronald D. Moore

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.
‐‐ Rod Steiger

I was very political when JFK ran.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
‐‐ Taki Theodoracopulos

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
‐‐ Kristin Davis

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
‐‐ Stephen Chow

I was very poor when I was young.
‐‐ Jason Day

I was very popular in high school.
‐‐ NeNe Leakes

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

I was very productive as a senator for my state.
‐‐ Carol Moseley Braun

I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
‐‐ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

I was very proud of my father, and I admired him, but I always thought he was more interesting than the shows he was working on.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.
‐‐ Merry Clayton

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I was very rebellious.
‐‐ Katey Sagal

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.
‐‐ Emma Bonino

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
‐‐ John Cleese

I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball and did ballet as well so was very athletic. I wasn't curvaceous; I had muscles on my arms and shoulders. Often I felt like hiding them rather than showing them off, as I felt they were masculine.
‐‐ Bryony Shaw

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
‐‐ Jacqueline de Ribes

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
‐‐ Om Puri

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
‐‐ Kate McKinnon

I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

I was very sexual from a very young age.
‐‐ Portia de Rossi

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
‐‐ Howard Stringer

I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.
‐‐ Jeremy Jordan

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
‐‐ Nicholson Baker

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl