All Quotes

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
‐‐ Luther Vandross

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay between the cleaner and the director general was a four-to-one ratio. I find that attractive.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.
‐‐ Pras Michel

When I was leaving NBC News to go to CNN, people would say, 'What?! Why would you possibly leave the 'Today Show' to go to cable?' If I would've listened to people, I would've been on a great platform, but I wouldn't have grown as a journalist. So far, most of the steps in my career have been really good.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
‐‐ Barkhad Abdi

When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.
‐‐ Alfred Enoch

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

When I was, like, 16 or 17, I was just finding out about this YouTube thing. Then I saved a bit and asked my parents for some help to get the recording software and equipment.
‐‐ KSI

When I was, like, 5 years old, I used to pray to have light skin because I would always hear how pretty that little light skin girl was, or I would hear I was pretty to be dark skin. It wasn't until I was 13 that I really learned to appreciate my skin color and know that I was beautiful.
‐‐ Keke Palmer

When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.'
‐‐ Rory Culkin

When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.
‐‐ Kyp Malone

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
‐‐ Slick Rick

When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
‐‐ Katherine McNamara

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'
‐‐ Jane Levy

When I was little, I'd pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.
‐‐ Chelan Simmons

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
‐‐ John Terry

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.
‐‐ JR

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so - she was so elegant.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
‐‐ Fetty Wap

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her dressing-table mirror. I have an entire room of ribbons in my New York apartment.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard

When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
‐‐ Takashi Murakami

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.
‐‐ Summer Glau

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
‐‐ Zara Larsson

When I was little, I had never really expected to win such a big competition. For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'
‐‐ Ellen Greene

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
‐‐ Justine Larbalestier

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
‐‐ Pauley Perrette

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.
‐‐ Mr. T

When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.
‐‐ Ashley Benson

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.
‐‐ Bitsie Tulloch

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.
‐‐ Jennifer Egan

When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
‐‐ Ma Huateng

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.
‐‐ Autumn Reeser

When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
‐‐ Emily Berrington

When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
‐‐ Freddie Prinze

When I was little, I was such a tomboy - I loved a baggy T-shirt and leggings.
‐‐ Alice Dellal

When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
‐‐ Brianna Brown

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.
‐‐ Natalie Coughlin