Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nastia Liukin

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

Fab Five Freddy

I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

George Mastras

I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.

Q-Tip

I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.

Jude Law

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

Keir Gilchrist

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

Katherine Paterson

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

T. R. Knight

I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.

Mickey Mantle

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

Henry Allingham

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

Channing Tatum

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Zach Galligan

I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.

Ori Gersht

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.

Anna Torv

I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.

Norman Fell

I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career.

David Cassidy

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Pat Travers

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

Dan Phillips

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

James L. Brooks

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

Patrick Fugit

I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.

Lori Greiner

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

Stephen Mangan

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

Ken Caminiti

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

Joaquin Phoenix

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

William Lucking

I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.

Kelli Williams

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Vincent Schiavelli

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

Curly Howard

I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

Tia Carrere

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

Bill Dana

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Glenne Headly

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

Dilma Rousseff

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

Bat for Lashes

I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

Freddie Hubbard

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

Om Puri

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Kim Mathers

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

Baba Kalyani

I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

Frank Richard Stockton

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Brooke Hayward

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Bob Livingston

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

Daniel Logan

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

Nicole Jordan

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

Namie Amuro

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Sissy Spacek

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

William Kidd

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

Sammy Cahn

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.