I Quotes
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“I was lucky, because Ewan McGregor had already been shooting with Roman Polanski for about a month before I got role. And he did a faultless impersonation of what it was going to be like. So when direction happened, it was like, "Oh yeah. That's what Ewan said was going to happen." And so it was a little bit less debilitating than it might have been.”
“I was lucky, from the age of 12 I had boxing talent and was good for my age.”
“I was lucky, I got offered places and have had some good opportunities. But it is hard work. I suppose I am a bit of a geek when it comes to acting and doing my work. But I was never really nerdy at school, more slightly naughty, so this is my time to be nerdy.”
“I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.”
“I was lucky. From the time I was a little, I was always surrounded by women, and I am very attracted to the feminine world, because I love the strength and romanticism, which in the end, you can find in my style.”
“I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn't until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.”
“I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate about something.”
“I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.”
“I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.”
“I was lucky. My children didn't have health issues, didn't have big school problems, etc. And as I watched some of my peers go through this, you can see how quickly a family can get derailed when they are not lucky.”
“I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.”
“I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.”
“I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.”
“I was lured though, thought Matthias. And it wasn't just her beauty.”
Source: Six of Crows
“I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.”
“I was lying here watching Dr. Phil, who, by the way, has some anger management issues. Doesn't his wife Robin look like she's been hypnotized? I feel like he goes home and beats her. The guy's an egomaniac and he's not doing a very [sic] job of covering it up by pretending to be interested in other people's problems.”
Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
“I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.”
“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935
“I was lying on a chaise lounge trying to get some sun on my legs and arms when two pigeons, thinking I was a slab of concrete and glad for the shade, started mating beneath me. The sounds were getting louder. This was not how I had wanted to spend my first summer out of high school”
Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“I was lying on a soft bed of fallen leaves, their crunch unmistakable beneath me as I twisted and writhed. The air was cool, but he was beside me, keeping me warm. He was as familiar to me as my own breathing, yet I was aware that his was not a simple human touch. His presence was less dense than the human body's but more powerful, and able to engulf me. I took in the ambrosia of his hot scent- wood, leather, and ancient spices- earthy, in contrast to the feel of his being. I opened my eyes and saw that we were lying in a grove of trees with golden leaves beneath unfamiliar stars that blazed across an immense velvet sky. The wind tossed about a single glistening leaf, which rose and fell at the air's will. I watched it dance with the breeze as my lover flooded my senses. Eventually, it fluttered beside us and fell to the earth.”
Source: Dracula in Love
“I was lying ten and had a thirty-five foot putt. I whispered over my shoulder: "How does this one break?" And my caddie said, "Who cares?"”
“I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.”
“I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.”
“I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.”
“I was mad because this moment was supposed to be simple, and it was not.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“I was mad for glory when I was young. I wanted to fight a griffin in the mountains of the North and steal its gold. I wanted to ride the horses of the sun, and rescue a princess from a tower of iron. . . .
-- Ariantes to Pervica, his intended new wife, on his dreams at age 18.”
Source: Island of Ghosts
“I was mad. I was bitter. I was angry. I was outraged. I was sad. I was hateful. I was hurt. I was in love. But I never let him take the best of me.”
“I was mad that I was so sensitive in the first place, trained in an empathy so granular and heartbreaking and Jewish, that my view on the family was so robust that I couldn't just be plain angry like a regular teenager. So inclined was I toward empathy and understanding that I didn't even know how I really felt about anything, whatever that even meant. I saw everything from everyone else's perspective and I felt bad and sad for us all.”
“I was mad when I heard The Amazing Race wasn't about white people.”
“I was madder than a midget with a yo-yo”
“I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.”
Source: The Brownings' correspondence: September 1849-January 1850 : letters 2813-2900
“I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.”
Source: Poems
“I was made for action movies.”
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.”
“I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.”
“I was made of frost and rot and endless things. I was not made to fear the Folk.”
Source: A Feather So Black
“I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.”
“I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.”
“I was made to be wild, wicked and free, to carve out my own crazy destiny, to find a place in this world where I can be the most authentic version of me.”
“I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.”
“I was made to believe there's something wrong with me.”
“I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.”
“I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!”
“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“I was made to rule the darkness.”
Source: Evermore
“I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.”
“I was made very sick by electromagnetic radiation exposures from high altitude mountains, electrical rooms, solar photovoltaic systems, cell phone towers, smart meters, computers and WiFi routers.”
“I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.”
“I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.”