All Quotes

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.
‐‐ Emma Watson

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
‐‐ Jo Brand

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
‐‐ Matthew Reilly

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
‐‐ Gayle Forman

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
‐‐ Henry Czerny

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
‐‐ Christina Applegate

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
‐‐ Victor Mature

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.
‐‐ Ryan Stiles

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.
‐‐ Bobby Flay

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.
‐‐ Jamie Kennedy

I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.
‐‐ Steve Jones

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.
‐‐ Cory Michael Smith

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.
‐‐ John Lone

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
‐‐ Gary Gygax

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
‐‐ Andrew Young

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
‐‐ Meghan O'Rourke

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.
‐‐ Giuliana Rancic

I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
‐‐ Moby

I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.
‐‐ Jennifer Garner

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.
‐‐ Kristin Kreuk

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.
‐‐ Christine McVie

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

I wasn't ready to say, I can't play anymore. And I'm still not.
‐‐ Jamie Moyer

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
‐‐ Larry Bird

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.
‐‐ Karen Abbott

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
‐‐ Tom Lehrer

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
‐‐ Johnny Gimble

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
‐‐ Peter Fonda

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
‐‐ Patrick Carman

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.
‐‐ Roger Bart

I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
‐‐ Callan McAuliffe

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

I wasn't really interested in doing anything except going from pilot season to pilot season and sowing my oats in the months between and telling my agency to stop sending me movie scripts, because they'd pile up in my house and make me feel guilty because I had to read them.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
‐‐ Meg Tilly

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
‐‐ Kathy Acker

I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn't really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.
‐‐ KSI