All Quotes

When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
‐‐ Valerie June

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.
‐‐ Lily Rabe

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.
‐‐ Anne Sebba

When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.
‐‐ Sophie McShera

When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I watched those things, I felt like it was such a good escape. It wasn't even that I needed an escape, but I wanted to be an actor so I could give that feeling to someone else.
‐‐ Spencer Boldman

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
‐‐ Said Nursi

When I was ten years old, I saw a big, fat beetle get squished. I don't recall the circumstances, but that's not important. It's the result that stuck with me. The beetle's thick, viscous insides so closely resembled a crushed blueberry that, to this day, I can't eat raw blueberries without feeling nauseous.
‐‐ Jeremy Robinson

When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did judo, so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up, and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.
‐‐ Scott Adkins

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father quickly found work at what was then the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks.
‐‐ John Burnside

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.
‐‐ Traian Basescu

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
‐‐ Joe Sacco

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
‐‐ Julie Taymor

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?
‐‐ Stephen Hopkins

When I was thinking of people for the Space Twins, I wanted people who were sort of space cadets in the first place. I consider myself to be one.
‐‐ Brian Bell

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
‐‐ Ringo Starr

When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
‐‐ Tansy Rayner Roberts

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.
‐‐ Jacob Ruppert

When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sitting cross legged on the floor listening to a never-ending story. Page after page.
‐‐ Caterina Scorsone

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
‐‐ Jeffrey Archer

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.
‐‐ Erich Leinsdorf

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.
‐‐ Logan Marshall-Green

When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.
‐‐ Tim Hudson

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.
‐‐ Lawrence Wright

When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, who I had grown up with, which showed me some moves, but it was never a full on match. When I went to competitions, there were other girls, so I always wrestled girls.
‐‐ Jaimie Alexander

When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
‐‐ Kamla Persad-Bissessar

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
‐‐ Lorde

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
‐‐ Molly Ringwald

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
‐‐ Frances Mayes

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.
‐‐ Stephen Graham Jones

When I was twenty-two it was a lot harder to get hurt by women. It was easier for me to, you know, cheat on a girlfriend. I can't lie like that anymore.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

When I was twenty years old, I had gum grafts put in.
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I'd caused the dragonfly to be killed.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.
‐‐ Megan Charpentier

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi