All Quotes

It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
‐‐ Helena Bonham Carter

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.
‐‐ Martin Bashir

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
‐‐ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
‐‐ Boris Becker

It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
‐‐ Alan Yang

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
‐‐ Zane Grey

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
‐‐ Daryl Gates

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; I had moments where I was writing a lot, and it was just a massive learning process for me.
‐‐ Flume

It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
‐‐ Dan Hill

It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.
‐‐ Mark Warkentin

It was a dream come true for me to be at the Olympics.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.
‐‐ Deborah Cox

It was a dream come true to be drafted by a pro team and have the opportunity to play.
‐‐ Jamie Moyer

It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.
‐‐ Mason Cook

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal.
‐‐ Sarah Hughes

It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of '98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
‐‐ Bobby Charlton

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
‐‐ Julia Ormond

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
‐‐ Diogenes

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
‐‐ Mary Steenburgen

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
‐‐ John Goodman

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.
‐‐ Julia Sweeney

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.
‐‐ Howard Keel

It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.
‐‐ Tig Notaro

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.
‐‐ Luke Perry

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
‐‐ Charlie Simpson

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.
‐‐ Ron Francis

It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
‐‐ Daniel Ellsberg

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
‐‐ Daisy Berkowitz

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.
‐‐ Terry Southern

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
‐‐ Sarah Waters

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
‐‐ Alice Hoffman

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.
‐‐ Julie Adams

It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.
‐‐ Brandon Routh

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
‐‐ Lance Burton

It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
‐‐ Ma Long

It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.
‐‐ Matthew Rees

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
‐‐ Karel Capek