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“I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.”

Author:Fiona Apple

“I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.”

Lost Brain Football Using Your Brain

Author:Jason Peter

“I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.”

Knows Hard Hard Work Perseverance Available Tall Handsome

Author:Seth Green

“I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?”

People Thinking Matter Community Acting Mistake Millions Office Starting Boxes Worth It Strategic Back When Box Office Starting Out No One Cares

Author:Winona Ryder

“I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.”

Way Important Enough Simple Careers Successful Mets Musician Recognition Good Enough

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.”

Feels Play Feelings Natural Consciousness College Prove Expected Nba Underdog

Author:Steve Nash

“I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.”

Children Taught Raises Raised

Author:Corey Feldman

“I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.”

Knows Kind Bigs Guy Rocks Jazz Rock And Roll

Author:Robert Barry

“I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.”

Fronts Comfortable Cameras Terrified

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.”

Ifs Thinking Important Age Young Acting Break College Get Away Young Age Going To College

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.”

People Honest Amount Being Honest

Author:Mick Jagger

“I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.”

Want Wanted Draws Paint

Author:David Hockney

“I was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."”

Home Kids Easy Mom My Mom Complaining Quitting

Author:Nikki Haley

“I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.”

Art Important Kids Film New York Tvs Grew Grew Up Mediums Affected Midwest Art Films

Author:Shawn Ryan

“I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.”

Giving Interest Pleasure Careers Focus Give Me

Author:Matt Damon

“I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.”

Bigs Friendship Roles Being The Best Babe Quirky Sidekicks

Author:Joan Cusack

“I was never the best-looking guy; I was never the Tom Cruise-looking guy.”

Guy Toms Cruise

Author:Craig Sheffer

“I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.”

Doe Sometimes Kids Turns Weakness Badges

Author:Colin Munroe

“I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work... Now I can’t get a dramatic role to save my life!”

I Can Class Roles Growing Up Growing Theatre Dramatic Clown Seattle

Author:Anna Faris

“I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.”

Stills Kids School Perfect Successful Rich High School Hot Being Successful Cool Kid

Author:Kesha

“I was never the diplomatic diplomat.”

Diplomatic Diplomats

Author:Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

“I was never the girl next door.”

Girl Next Doors

Author:Bettie Page

“I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.”

Want Girl Parent Grew Married Grew Up

Author:Camila Alves

“I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.”

People Way Girl Centre Hallways Snapping

Author:Piper Perabo

“I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.”

Levels Careers Girlfriend Toms Cruise

Author:Jodie Foster

“I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.”

Knows Feels Doe Stills Age Actors Stars Interesting Huge Easier Hopefully Have Faith Dissatisfied Something Interesting

Author:Hope Davis

“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.”

“I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.”

Kind Painter Shops Sculptors

Author:Michelangelo

“I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.”

Team Football Georgia Football Team Mascots

Author:Wayne Knight

“I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.”

Wanted Artist Groups Solo

Author:Tweet

“I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.”

Ifs World Firsts Persons Real Problem Bigs Guy Leadership Rooms Deals Leader Big Deal First Person Real Problems

Author:Jack Welch

“I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father...once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it.”

“I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.”

Wells Sex My Friends

Author:Elton John

“I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.”

Hell

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.”

Way Grew Grew Up Barbie

Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.”

Mind Kind Mean Made Hard School Used Guy Courses Knowing Mets Band High School Bigger Pops Awful Made It Kicks Steady Brian Cleveland

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”

Writing Used Song Presses British Hype Supermarkets British Music

Author:Freddie Mercury

“I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.”

School Class Nicknames Classmates

Author:Lucy Hawking

“I was never trained for anything”

Author:Alan Ladd

“I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.”

Trying Real Feelings Being Real Always Trying

Author:Nina Menkes

“I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of dismantling the distance between writer and reader, a way of saying, "come in a little closer."”

Trying Distance

Author:Dan Chiasson

“I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.”

Trying Voice Audience Singing

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.”

Writing Trying Song Messages Fortune Good Fortune

Author:John Denver

“I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.”

Trying Found Outlaw

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do.”

Writing Character Shows Areas Unhappy

Author:David Rasche

“I was never up four percent.”

Four Percent

Author:Michael Bennet

“I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.”

Upset Nominations Emmys

Author:Kyle Chandler

“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”

Used Granted Took For Granted

Author:Marilyn Monroe

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

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