All Quotes

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.
‐‐ Chantal Kreviazuk

Once I got both my hips replaced, I could start working out and going Pilates, and it's helped me be more active and youthful.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.
‐‐ Geoffrey Boycott

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.
‐‐ Shayne Ward

Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
‐‐ Randall Munroe

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
‐‐ Candace Cameron Bure

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
‐‐ Joseph Kosinski

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
‐‐ Eli Roth

Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Once I got started acting I loved it.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.
‐‐ Clayton Moore

Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.
‐‐ Gregory Hines

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
‐‐ Joan Allen

Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
‐‐ Nancy Johnson

Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.
‐‐ Charlotte Ronson

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
‐‐ Eric Williams

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.
‐‐ Jayson Blair

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
‐‐ Art Rooney

Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
‐‐ Ethel Merman

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
‐‐ Fred Hoyle

Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
‐‐ Solange Knowles

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.
‐‐ Greta Scacchi

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.
‐‐ Shay Mitchell

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.
‐‐ Dean Bakopoulos

Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
‐‐ Fergie

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
‐‐ Gena Showalter

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
‐‐ Dav Pilkey

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
‐‐ Helen Keller

Once I know a song really well, I can then have fun dancing.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
‐‐ Larry David

Once I learned that some hydrating oil or cream was good for my hair, I thought I should use a lot. So I poured practically a bottle on my head once and learned real fast that more isn't always better. I was so greasy, and it ruined my texture!
‐‐ Jillian Hervey

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
‐‐ Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
‐‐ F. Murray Abraham

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.
‐‐ Michael Phelps

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
‐‐ Kai Ryssdal

Once I'm committed, I'm unafraid of the outcome.
‐‐ Helmut Lang

Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.
‐‐ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
‐‐ Brian Selznick