All Quotes

When I got into high school, clarinet was not really in fashion. Everybody had electric bands.
‐‐ Anat Cohen

When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
‐‐ Boyd Holbrook

When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones.
‐‐ Dee Dee Ramone

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.
‐‐ Sterling K. Brown

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
‐‐ Paul Weller

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
‐‐ Chuck Norris

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
‐‐ Janelle Monae

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.
‐‐ Stephanie Beacham

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
‐‐ Li Na

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
‐‐ Ben E. King

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'
‐‐ Elizabeth Pena

When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
‐‐ Nat Turner

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.
‐‐ Rebecca Mader

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.
‐‐ Greg Garrison

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.
‐‐ Brad Paisley

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.
‐‐ Stuart Rose

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.
‐‐ Tyne Daly

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.
‐‐ Jo Brand

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.
‐‐ Illinois Jacquet

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
‐‐ Len Wein

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
‐‐ Les Paul

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
‐‐ Andy Warhol

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.
‐‐ Jessie Cave

When I got my job on 'Parks,' it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn't think a job that excellent could exist for me.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
‐‐ Shannon Lucid

When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.
‐‐ Jill Scott

When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All these things make me cry.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.
‐‐ Lisa Gardner

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
‐‐ Johnny Otis

When I got off '24,' pretty soon after that I did a movie that took place in the '70s, this movie with Jimmy Caan and Gena Rowlands, and I needed to kind of have that '70s pouffy housewife hair.
‐‐ Leslie Hope

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
‐‐ Johnny Winter

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
‐‐ Tori Amos

When I got on set, and these huge, big lights come on, it brings on a smell - it's almost like the smell of a light burning a little bit - and I said, 'This reminds me of my childhood,' because I grew up onstage.
‐‐ Tia Mowry

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
‐‐ Rachel Platten

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
‐‐ Artie Lange

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
‐‐ Robert Jenkins

When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
‐‐ Vin Diesel

When I got onto PGA Tour Canada right out of college, I was competitive more quickly than when I got onto the PGA Tour, but that just shows you how much work and effort it takes to get to the world stage. The best players in the world are the best at dealing with those emotions.
‐‐ David Hearn