Quotes starting with W Page 2007

“When I was younger, I thought about retiring.”

“When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too.”

Knows Needs Hard Acting Cry Caught

Author:Julianne Moore

“When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.”

Thinking Feelings Might Young Half

Author:Robbie Robertson

“When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.”

Country Girl Father Names Given Appreciate My Family Rays Daddy Given Names

Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success.”

“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.”

People Wells Hard Helping Turns Lost Careers Changed Proud Projects

Author:James Franco

“When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.”

People Ifs Used Stuff Situation Emotional Humour Serious Jokes Tools Cracks Deep Emotional

Author:Matthew Perry

“When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.”

Used Used To Be Hurdle Jumpers

Author:Liu Xiang

“When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.”

Stills Used Scared Used To Be Shy Being Scared

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“When I was younger, I used to be the cheater. But I'm not talking about going all the way.... I wasn't doing that in high school! I'd have boyfriends and then spring break would come around and I'd be a little bit naughty.”

Way Littles School Used Bits Talking Break Little Bit Spring High School Used To Be Naughty Not Talking Cheater Spring Break

Author:Fergie

“When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that some writers have an appetite or a need for the political, for political discourse, for historical political subjects.”

Needs Feels Political Used Subjects Historical Used To Be Appetite Discourse Impatient Political Discourse Historical Political

Author:Tony Kushner

“When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.”

Used Window Bunch Turkeys

Author:Levon Helm

“When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.”

People Years Country Used Hate Culture Language Appreciate Hated Germany

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“When I was younger, I used to put honey and Coca-Cola and all that stuff on my body and just fry in the sun. But I think we all know how bad that is for you.”

Thinking Knows Body Used Stuff Know How Sun Honey Coca Cola

Author:Nina Agdal

“When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.”

Used One Day

Author:Katie Price

“When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.”

Thinking Heart Kind Persons Made Moving Used Night Born Mystery Hollywood Sells Holes Bunch Producers Glorious Laughed Dishes Tickets Thinking Love

Author:Stephen King

“When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.”

Used Stuff Goal Wonder Scoring Goals

Author:Wayne Rooney

“When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'”

Writing Made Play Used Mistake Roles Terrible Directors Unsure

Author:Kelly Reilly

“When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.”

Wanted

Author:Tom Waits

“When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.”

Want Wanted

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.”

Sometimes Character Criticism

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.”

Wanted Audience Design Painting Creating Theater Towns Intense Bizarre Circus Audience Of One

Author:Neil Burger

“When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.”

Stage College Dressings Emerging

Author:Hope Solo

“When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.”

Play Wind Tennis Robots

Author:Chris Evert

“When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.”

Understanding Insight Looking Forward Getting Old Getting Older

Author:Cate Blanchett

“When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.”

Knows Want Wanted Film Actors Felt Study Successful College Get Away Kenya Going To College

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.”

Play Musician Ears

Author:Stephen Bruner

“When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.”

Lucky Happy Go Lucky

Author:Michael J. Fox

“When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. Then I drank and I partied - did all that stuff that might tell you maybe there was a little bit of untruth in that [description]. Now, the surprising thing is that when I say stuff, I actually mean it. I don't have to do the work of trying to formulate my point of view. It just is. And it's surprising how much I love life. I just really have a good time.”

“When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.”

Years Wells Two Running Girl Dad Involved My Friends Two Years Rehearsal Other Girl Backup Always Running Impersonators

Author:Brandi Carlile

“When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.”

Success Winning Inspiring Taught Excuse Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Derek Jeter

“When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.”

Important Example Myth Fascinated Bowie

Author:Lars von Trier

“When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.”

Love Young Girl Passion Students College England British Ireland My Passion Folklore Celtic College Students Isle Celtic Music

Author:Terri Windling

“When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.”

Important Different Able Girl Honesty Conversation Hot Down And Different Things Hot Girl

Author:Blake Griffin

“When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it.”

Thinking Knows Want Kind Fearless Do You Know Naive

Author:Carole King

“When I was younger, I was like full eyeliner, tons of mascara, blush, and a red lip thinking, Oh, this is sexy. And now I think natural is better.”

Thinking Natural Red Lips Sexy Red Lips Mascara Eyeliner

Author:Nina Agdal

“When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.”

Knows Soul Listening Revolutionary Protest Bees Funk Armenians Abba Bee Gees

Author:Serj Tankian

“When I was younger, I was obsessed with makeup! I couldn't wait to head down to the drugstore to buy the newest eyeshadow and lip stick. Only thing was, I never really realized you could actually have a career in beauty! Once I got my first taste of makeup in the "professional world," during fashion week, I was hooked.”

World Waiting Week Fashion Obsessed Makeup

Author:Mally Roncal

“When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.”

Kind Girl Break Fame Claims Locals Neighborhood Ghetto

Author:Joy Bryant

“When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.”

People Looks Able Wife New York Ready Scared My Wife Freeze Limelight

Author:Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.”

Accepting Hollywood Chloe Snob

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.”

Kids Cameras Defense Vulnerable Mechanism Living On Defense Mechanisms

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.”

Thinking World Littles Done Bits Battle Little Bit Better Place Realist Idealist

Author:Conor Oberst

“When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.”

Men Song Left Bits Deals Anger Tongue Reactions Horrible Therapy Kicks Terrified Avoidance Aftermath Later In Life Expressing Anger

Author:Alanis Morissette

“When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.”

Sports Athletic Physical Things

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself.”

Ifs Trying Enough Actors Speak Realizing Concerned Worried Good Enough Mold

Author:River Phoenix

“When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.”

Trying Years Kids Careers Appreciate Good Day Concentrating Wednesday Good Years

Author:Albert Brooks

“When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.”

Thinking Knows Way Feels Persons Doe Body Fit Comfortable Clothes Smart Average Right Way Average Person

Author:Theophilus London

“When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day Id be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!”

Two Different Would Be Next Crazy Rocks One Day Punk Phases Punk Rock Goofy Girly Two Best Friends

Author:Ashley Benson

“When I was younger, I would eat everything.”

Author:Summer Sanders

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