All Quotes

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.
‐‐ Molly Shannon

When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
‐‐ Bill Hader

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham

When I was on 'Terra Nova', I had an Australian iPhone and a U.S. iPhone, different time zones, just a couple differences in the machines, but I was able to keep the international aspect of things in order. But I lost my U.S. iPhone right before I left Australia. Somebody's got it somewhere out there. Send it back?
‐‐ Jason O'Mara

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.
‐‐ Josh Lucas

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.
‐‐ Ashton Kutcher

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
‐‐ Alan Ladd

When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

When I was on 'The Golden Girls,' we'd have eight scenes per show. And when 'Seinfeld' came along, they went to, like, 30 scenes a show, which was revolutionary. 'Arrested Development' has probably got 60 scenes per show. It just keeps emerging as this more and more complex thing. I always try to keep it very simple at its heart.
‐‐ Mitchell Hurwitz

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
‐‐ Peggy Fleming

When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.
‐‐ Keri Russell

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'
‐‐ Jimmy Kimmel

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.
‐‐ Courtney Barnett

When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough... I needed to hear that I was good.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
‐‐ Taylor Kinney

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.
‐‐ Steven Wright

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?
‐‐ Sonia Levitin

When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
‐‐ Jerry Lewis

When I was operating as one of President Reagan's economic advisers, an early assignment was to analyze the federal government's landholdings and make recommendations about what to do with them. This was a big job. These lands are vast, covering an area six times that of France.
‐‐ Steve Hanke

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I was out of work when I first moved to L.A., one of the first things my husband and I did was buy season's passes to Disney, and whenever I was bummed out about work, we would go to Space Mountain, and it was like a physical injection of anti-depressants.
‐‐ Melissa Rauch

When I was out promoting 'Selma,' I became aware of so many other films that ought to be getting distribution. And this is a problem I can do something about because of my experience.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

When I was outed, it was like, That's done.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
‐‐ Chris Ofili

When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
‐‐ Mary Berry

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
‐‐ R. Kelly

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.
‐‐ Chuck Yeager

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.
‐‐ Alexa Von Tobel

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.
‐‐ James Norton

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
‐‐ Michael Jordan

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
‐‐ Chris Hillman

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.
‐‐ Romeo Miller

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
‐‐ Alan Hansen

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
‐‐ Bill Fagerbakke

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.
‐‐ Jonah Lomu

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
‐‐ Bob Gibson

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.
‐‐ Travie McCoy

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.
‐‐ John Tesh

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
‐‐ Geoffrey Boycott

When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.
‐‐ Red Schoendienst

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.
‐‐ Liv Tyler