Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Wilson

I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.

Christopher Meloni

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Don Ho

I had no intention of being an entertainer.

Yves Chauvin

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

Sharon Shinn

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Lawrence Bender

I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

Willie McCovey

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

Sander Levin

I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.

William Petersen

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Junior Seau

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Zachery Ty Bryan

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

Orville Redenbacher

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

Devon Aoki

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive

Alexander the Great

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Fiona Apple

I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

Walter Dean Myers

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

Timothy Griffin

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

Herschel Walker

I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?'

Edward G. Robinson

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

Haywood Nelson

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

Gabriel E. Gomez

I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

Lesley Manville

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.

Kate Thompson

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Frank Gifford

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

Brendan Coyle

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

Shelley Fabares

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

Ryne Sandberg

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

Brian Welch

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

Tisha Campbell-Martin

I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.

John Hughes

I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman.

Catherine McCormack

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

Robert Moog

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Robert Smith

I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.

Lena Headey

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

Samantha Bee

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

Richard Avedon

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Pamela Hansford Johnson

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Tom Ford

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.

Margaret Heffernan

I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.

Peaches Geldof

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

Peter Steele

I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.

Shannon Hoon

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Martin Short

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

Sam Neill

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

Nia Long

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Rachel McAdams

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

Barry Bonds

I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.