All Quotes

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
‐‐ Anna Deavere Smith

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
‐‐ Rollie Fingers

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.
‐‐ John Madden

When I got out of college, I booked a movie called 'Go for It!' with Lionsgate, came out here, and I've been acting ever since - or trying, constantly trying.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
‐‐ J. K. Simmons

When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.
‐‐ Jenji Kohan

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
‐‐ Don Rickles

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.
‐‐ Robert Hunter

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.
‐‐ Courtney B. Vance

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
‐‐ Elvis Presley

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.
‐‐ Michael Moriarty

When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman

When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.
‐‐ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
‐‐ Sally Phillips

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.
‐‐ Kathy Giusti

When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
‐‐ Alan Alda

When I got saved, God became my art agent.
‐‐ Thomas Kincade

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.
‐‐ Meghan Trainor

When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

When I got sober and started working out, I fell into that trap of working out too much. I know a lot of guys can relate to that - if you don't get that runner's high every day, you feel like, 'Oh my God, I'm losing it.'
‐‐ Joe Perry

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.
‐‐ Mary Karr

When I got sober, that was 1990.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

When I got somethin' to say, I'll say it.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
‐‐ Brenda Laurel

When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.
‐‐ Freddie Hubbard

When I got the invitation to be part of 'The Ghost' or 'The Ghost Writer,' as it's now known, from Mr. Roman Polanski, my interest level was very piqued. I was very excited and pleased to get such an offer from Mr. Roman Polanski.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!
‐‐ Bruce McGill

When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.
‐‐ Ali Landry

When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'Wow! How does that happen?' But pretty much, from there on, everyone's been so lovely.
‐‐ Levi Miller

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
‐‐ Robbie Fowler

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
‐‐ Ruth Brown

When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others.
‐‐ Robert Weinberg

When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don't have to try and be cool. I'm someone's dad and it doesn't matter any more. That's an enormous freedom.
‐‐ John Simm

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'
‐‐ Gail Kelly

When I got to Broadway, I conducted five Broadway shows.
‐‐ David Friedman

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
‐‐ Luther Allison

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
‐‐ John Krasinski