Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liza Minnelli

I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.

David D. Burns

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood.

Leah Busque

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

Peter Hammill

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Lamorne Morris

I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.

Brad Carson

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

Cory Doctorow

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Dominic Chianese

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

Billy Porter

I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.

Marlon Wayans

I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!

Otto Dix

I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?

Uma Thurman

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Gabrielle Union

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Lars Mikkelsen

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

Julius Erving

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Tracey Gold

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.

Retief Goosen

I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.

Natascha McElhone

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

Tamsin Egerton

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

John Mayer

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

August Strindberg

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Judy Blume

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

Shirley Bassey

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

LeBron James

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Stockard Channing

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

Bill Hicks

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

Emma Thompson

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Ion Tiriac

I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

Garrett Camp

I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

Hasnat Khan

I have a Bachelor in medicine, a Bachelor in surgery, and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Kate DiCamillo

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Ed McBain

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

Sam Rockwell

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

Hannah Kent

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

Phoebe Philo

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

Dick Cavett

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

Alec Berg

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

Karin Slaughter

I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

Nina Hagen

I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out.

Bob Iger

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

Lee R. Raymond

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

Terri Windling

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Dennis Farina

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Eric Church

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

Diane Sawyer

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Jim Fowler

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Brittany Howard

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

Lucas Till

I have a lot of respect for people with a lot of talent.

Shirley Manson

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!