All Quotes

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
‐‐ Jon Ronson

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
‐‐ Danica McKellar

I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
‐‐ Laila Ali

I wasn't instructed to do any special training for 'Hawkgirl,' but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.
‐‐ Ciara Renee

I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.
‐‐ Cathy Guisewite

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
‐‐ Iris Apfel

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
‐‐ Fawn Hall

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I wasn't interested in having children of my own. I know what would have happened - I'd have been left at home to look after the kids, and my career would have been over while my husband travelled the world.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.
‐‐ John Trudell

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
‐‐ Jim Hodges

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
‐‐ Tom Baker

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.
‐‐ Chris Jordan

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.
‐‐ Thomas McDonell

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.
‐‐ Lily Allen

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.
‐‐ John Varvatos

I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.
‐‐ Eliza Doolittle

I wasn't into tapping when it began dying down. Ever since I started, it's been alive for me. I just want to keep on dancing. I want to do it all.
‐‐ Savion Glover

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
‐‐ Michael Chabon

I wasn't jumping like Carl Lewis, but I still won an Olympic title.
‐‐ Greg Rutherford

I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.
‐‐ Glenn Beck

I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.
‐‐ Chico Marx

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I wasn't like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.
‐‐ Penny Marshall

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
‐‐ Alexander Skarsgard

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.
‐‐ Sean Harris

I wasn't like most girls.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

I wasn't, like, this top model; I was quietly doing my work, and when I became an actress, people started doing research, and everybody found out. People dug out photos, and suddenly people became interested - but no one was interested in my photos when I was a model.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko

I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
‐‐ Linda McCartney

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
‐‐ John Eldredge

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.
‐‐ Picabo Street

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
‐‐ Louis Prima

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
‐‐ K'naan

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.
‐‐ Eddie Huang

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.
‐‐ Gypsy Rose Lee

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

I wasn't necessarily looking to do comedy on TV, but I don't think it's an accident that I ended up on 'Community.'
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.
‐‐ Ricky Jay

I wasn't offered a role in 'Expendables 1,' and I'm a guest star in 'Expendables 2.'
‐‐ Chuck Norris

I wasn't one-hundred percent sure that Jenny Craig was going to be the right program for me, but I wanted to do something. So I sat down with the CEO of Jenny Craig, Patti Larchet.
‐‐ Sara Rue

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.
‐‐ Matthew Rhys

I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan