Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
‐‐ Matthew Perry
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster
Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.
‐‐ Elton John
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
‐‐ Bob Newhart
Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
‐‐ Aubrey Plaza
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
‐‐ Liam Neeson
Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
‐‐ John Fahey
Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.
‐‐ Charles Keating
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.'
‐‐ Sutton Foster
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
‐‐ Clive Anderson
Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks.
‐‐ Amber Frey
Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
‐‐ Rupert Sanders
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
‐‐ Gloria Gaynor
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.
‐‐ Amy Sedaris
Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig
Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton
Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.
‐‐ Skitch Henderson
Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders
Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi
Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.
‐‐ David Plouffe
Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people.
‐‐ Robert Atkins
Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film.
‐‐ David Carradine
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
‐‐ Vanessa Carlton
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
‐‐ Brett Favre
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.
‐‐ Milos Forman
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!
‐‐ Tristan Wilds
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
‐‐ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.
‐‐ Bill Gross
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
‐‐ Raekwon
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
‐‐ George Carlin
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
‐‐ Eric Cantor
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
‐‐ Mary MacLane
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
‐‐ James Thurber
Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
‐‐ Joe Manganiello
Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.
‐‐ Norman Wisdom
Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
‐‐ Howard Gardner
Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
‐‐ Lord Robertson
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
‐‐ John Keegan
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
‐‐ James Schuyler
Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.
‐‐ Alex Chiu
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
‐‐ Count Basie
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
‐‐ Erykah Badu
Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
‐‐ Harriet Harman
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
‐‐ Mel Gibson