All Quotes

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
‐‐ Ice Cube

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.
‐‐ Sid Caesar

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.
‐‐ Drew Carey

When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'
‐‐ Douglas Hodge

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' everyone in Hollywood was saying I had too much muscle.
‐‐ Hope Solo

When I did 'Dancing with the Stars' I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'
‐‐ Marie Osmond

When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.
‐‐ George Lois

When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
‐‐ John Hughes

When I did finally live in the Dandenongs, the mountain ash forests became an important part of my life.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
‐‐ Edgar Winter

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Seigner

When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.
‐‐ Emily Watson

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'
‐‐ Ann Hood

When I did 'Good Guys Wear Black,' I had a lot of dialogue in that movie.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.
‐‐ Laura Osnes

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.
‐‐ Patti Smith

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
‐‐ Dick York

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.
‐‐ Mick Ralphs

When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media.
‐‐ Stewart Lee

When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.
‐‐ Richard Grieco

When I did 'Lady in the Water,' the most exciting thing to me was to get to work with Bob Balaban - I couldn't leave the guy alone. I drove him crazy. He's fantastic and a hilarious guy.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'
‐‐ Raza Jaffrey

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
‐‐ Doug Henning

When I did my first film, I was in college; I did it as a senior thesis. The original version was 60 minutes. But I developed it and made it almost 90 minutes. In 2007, it premiered in Venice, and I stopped in London to develop a script with my dad that fell apart, and we started 'Gravity.'
‐‐ Jonás Cuarón

When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if not daily from publications and television shows who want to know what's hot, how to get started in antiques, and the best way to buy antiques.
‐‐ Judith Miller

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
‐‐ Chris Hadfield

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.
‐‐ Danny Bautista

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.
‐‐ Greta Gerwig

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.
‐‐ Denis O'Hare

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.
‐‐ Eliza Coupe

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'
‐‐ Darren Star

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.
‐‐ Richard Roundtree

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
‐‐ Leslie Caron

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.
‐‐ Kimi Raikkonen

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
‐‐ Rube Goldberg

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.
‐‐ Matthew Vaughn

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
‐‐ Lisa Whelchel

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.
‐‐ Diane Cilento