My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.
‐‐ Eric Swalwell
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
‐‐ Ruud van Nistelrooy
My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy
My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'
‐‐ Tony Kushner
My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
‐‐ Gregory Corso
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.
‐‐ Elon Musk
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
‐‐ Jeri Ryan
My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.
‐‐ Darlene Senger
My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.
‐‐ Franka Potente
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
‐‐ Cindy Gallop
My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.
‐‐ Derek Mears
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
‐‐ John Astin
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
‐‐ Alan Garner
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
‐‐ Larry David
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
‐‐ Nick Denton
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
‐‐ Asif Kapadia
My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.
‐‐ Kim Ji-woon
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
‐‐ Nell Newman
My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
‐‐ Beth Riesgraf
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer
My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.
‐‐ David Crane
My background is in health care.
‐‐ Bobby Jindal
My background is in improv and writing.
‐‐ Paul Scheer
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.
‐‐ Matt Ross
My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
‐‐ Sally Ride
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
‐‐ Tommy Wiseau
My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.
‐‐ Kevin Rose
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
‐‐ Amy Schumer
My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
‐‐ Yuri Milner
My background is Indian, so I believe in a spiritual idea that there is another level, another layer or layers, if you will, above us. I believe that there are elements that allow things to be drawn together, a sort of energy.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia
My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm concerned.
‐‐ Janet Montgomery
My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.
‐‐ Kid Cudi
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
‐‐ Alan Alda
My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
‐‐ Nandan Nilekani
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan
My background is Scottish.
‐‐ Melissa George
My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.
‐‐ David Carson
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
‐‐ Nita Ambani
My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.
‐‐ Fred Seibert
My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
‐‐ Cara Castronuova
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
‐‐ Hakeem Olajuwon
My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
‐‐ Brewster Kahle
My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.
‐‐ Jon Bon Jovi
My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.
‐‐ Ella Eyre
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
‐‐ Melinda Gates
My background was in performing originally.
‐‐ Cy Coleman
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.
‐‐ Eric Bana