All Quotes

When I decide to do something, I do it.
‐‐ Terry McAuliffe

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
‐‐ Sean Combs

When I decided I wanted to go to drama school, I realized that a lot of the actors whose careers I really admire and whose work I really admire were English and English trained. I felt there was a real vocational feel to work in the U.K.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.
‐‐ Tom Petty

When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.
‐‐ Eddie McClintock

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.
‐‐ Hawa Abdi

When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion.
‐‐ Heather Langenkamp

When I decided to come back, I wanted to prove to the rest of the world I'm still the best.
‐‐ Lin Dan

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
‐‐ Ed Harris

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
‐‐ Vera Wang

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.
‐‐ Carl Lewis

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
‐‐ Alex North

When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one talked about graduate school when I was an undergrad. I went on to a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and that transition from Yale to the Studio Museum, that was the real beginning of my professional career.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
‐‐ Estella Warren

When I decided to go to university I didn't know what I wanted to do. When I had an opportunity to take an elective I took Drama by chance, even though I'd never taken a Drama course or even been in a play in high school. Two years later I was majoring in Drama and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Kim Coates

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.
‐‐ Alexander Wang

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.
‐‐ Jon Runyan

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
‐‐ Asne Seierstad

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
‐‐ George Stephen

When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.
‐‐ Arundhati Roy

When I defend our right to hunt and fish on public lands, rivers and streams. Or work for better schools. And more good paying jobs that can support a family. Those aren't political issues to me. They're personal.
‐‐ Steve Bullock

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
‐‐ Alva Noto

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
‐‐ Michael Graves

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
‐‐ Vera Wang

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
‐‐ Eva Zeisel

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
‐‐ Bernard Tschumi

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
‐‐ Daniella Alonso

When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
‐‐ Gail Simmons

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
‐‐ Feist

When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.
‐‐ Spencer Boldman

When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
‐‐ A. James Clark

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
‐‐ Denzel Washington

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.
‐‐ Stephen Chbosky

When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
‐‐ Gary Dourdan

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.
‐‐ Tim Curry

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
‐‐ James Cromwell

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
‐‐ Michelle Forbes

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood