All Quotes

When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'
‐‐ Darby Stanchfield

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.
‐‐ John Boehner

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'
‐‐ Johnny Depp

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.
‐‐ Robert Stromberg

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.
‐‐ Chadwick Boseman

When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.
‐‐ Eric Roth

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

When I moved from Cambridge, I donated all my fiction. I carefully cut out pages the authors had autographed for me. I didn't want those autographed books showing up on eBay.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.
‐‐ Sergio Aguero

When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.
‐‐ Clark Gregg

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
‐‐ Jason Wu

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
‐‐ Nelsan Ellis

When I moved to Cleveland, defense research was laying the foundations for the Internet. The Apollo program was just about to put a man on the moon - and it was Neil Armstrong, from right here in Ohio. The future felt limitless. But today, our government is broken.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.
‐‐ Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to London at age 16, tired of the shuffle around other people's houses and ready to live on my own, I met my English brother and sister, who instantly claimed me as family.
‐‐ Allegra Huston

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.
‐‐ Alan Dale

When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
‐‐ Kenneth Choi

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
‐‐ Zach McGowan

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
‐‐ Darby Stanchfield

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.
‐‐ Stephen Gaghan

When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

When I moved to Nashville, I didn't really let myself sonically explore, but things naturally got a little more poppy. And in L.A., even more so.
‐‐ Madi Diaz

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
‐‐ Bette Midler

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
‐‐ Norah Jones

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.
‐‐ Marketa Irglova

When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
‐‐ Blake Lively

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I felt it was possible to find a balance and just about get by.
‐‐ Cecily Brown

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
‐‐ Rachael Harris

When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasn't good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.
‐‐ Michael Weatherly

When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
‐‐ Jeff Ament

When I moved to Seattle in fourth grade, I joined the Seattle Girls' Choir. It's a world-class choir, and we competed, toured Europe, and went and sang at the Vatican, so it was a really awesome experience to have that young.
‐‐ Bonnie McKee

When I moved to Sheffield and went to a secondary modern in the Seventies, there were certain challenges: if you've got a name like Sebastian, you either learn to fight or to run.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.
‐‐ Robert B. Laughlin

When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi