All Quotes

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
‐‐ Harland Williams

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.
‐‐ Dick Sargent

It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
‐‐ Allison Anders

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

It was such an idyllic time when I grew up in Hong Kong. It was a British colony and very much geared towards buying the best of Britain. My childhood does have a huge influence on how we design. There must be a little bit of that nostalgia - childhood is so special.
‐‐ Marie-Chantal Claire

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.
‐‐ Johnny Kidd

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.
‐‐ Thomas Dolby

It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
‐‐ John Hench

It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.
‐‐ Henry Winkler

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
‐‐ Martin Mull

It was terrible on dates, because I could never eat when I was on a date.
‐‐ Robert Barnes

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president.
‐‐ Monica Lewinsky

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'
‐‐ Dave Grohl

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.
‐‐ Matthew Modine

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
‐‐ Robert Hughes

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.
‐‐ Richard Donner

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
‐‐ Victoria Jackson

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
‐‐ Major Owens

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
‐‐ Paul A. Volcker

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
‐‐ Sidney Blumenthal

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
‐‐ Jeffrey Katzenberg

It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was part-time teaching - and since 1991, I've been a parent, so that cuts into the time!
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.
‐‐ Ray Nitschke

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
‐‐ Dave Thomas

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
‐‐ Colin Powell

It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.
‐‐ George Osborne

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
‐‐ Rod Parsley

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.
‐‐ John Archibald Wheeler

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
‐‐ James Coburn

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
‐‐ Barbara Bush

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
‐‐ Jim Sullivan

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
‐‐ Taylor Hackford

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.
‐‐ Kygo

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.
‐‐ Carmen Laforet

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!
‐‐ Gregory Harrison

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
‐‐ Adam Weishaupt

It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and we'd have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.
‐‐ Kirstie Alley

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.
‐‐ Ann Rutherford

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.
‐‐ Joe Gold