Quotes starting with W Page 2008

“When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?”

Trying Mean Opportunity Stuff Chance Audience Get Up Auditions Another Chance

Author:Al Pacino

“When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.”

Needs Said Laughing Serious Scene Directors Okay Mess Atonement Have A Laugh Idolized

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.”

Want Would Be Girl Drink Okay Dinner

Author:Ben Savage

“When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation, see what happens, then I'll draw a conclusion based on the empirical evidence. Hypothesis: I can play basketball." So I'd try. "Conclusion: I cannot play basketball."”

Trying I Can Play Happens Situation Basketball Draws Evidence Conclusion Hypothesis Empirical Evidence

Author:Demetri Martin

“When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.”

Trying Mean Children Happens Wanted Wish Promise Understood Work Out Promise Me Wanted Someone

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.”

Knows Made Different Reason Opportunity Fun Nervous Having Fun

Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“When I was younger, Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a mentor to me and gave me great advice. The best was to 'work 100 percent, but enjoy every moment along the way.' Sometimes you get so in the zone, you forget to enjoy your passions. I love running—but I also love the movies, relaxing on the beach, shopping and spending time with my friends. Enjoying my life helps me enjoy my running.”

Way Sometimes Moments Helping Running Passion Enjoy Forget Advice Percent My Friends Spending Beach Help Me Zone Shopping Mentor Spending Time Jackie Enjoying My Life Great Advice

Author:Allyson Felix

“When I was younger, Lisa Leslie inspired me a whole lot. She was someone I looked up to and wanted to be like. I really believe she is a good person. Hopefully, she can find out I am the same.”

Believe Persons Whole Wanted Inspired Hopefully Good Person Leslie

Author:Lauren Jackson

“When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.”

Light Kids Used Culture Black White Hair Racism Skins Moved Shock Neighborhood All Black Culture Shock Black Racism Straight Hair

Author:Halle Berry

“When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.”

Knows Mean Feelings Romantic Lonely Romantic Love Avoiding Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Escapade

Author:Michael Zaslow

“When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.”

Ifs Made Home Decision Practice Coaches Gym Squat

Author:Shawn Johnson

“When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.”

Want I Can Helping Perfect Dad My Dad This Day Want Me

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.”

Thinking Want Dad Band Yeah My Dad Video Hey Agents Auditions Ham Montreal Goofing Around

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.”

Kind Bigs Animal Family Lovers Dad My Family My Dad All Kinds Fishing Camping Animal Lover Dad Love

Author:Paris Hilton

“When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.”

Littles Persons Father Grew Grew Up South London Bugs Nigeria Panama Travel Bug Foreign Service

Author:Nicole Beharie

“When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength and you don't feel as much pain there.”

Feels Pain Hurt Feet Calluses

Author:Misty Copeland

“When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.”

Way Feels Writing Able Mother Fighting Crazy Letters Mad Storm Back And Forth

Author:Alicia Keys

“When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.”

Knows Used Stuff Parent Idiot Shut Up

Author:Chris Hardwick

“When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.”

Views New York Excited Wide

Author:Frankie Cosmos

“When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.”

Years Self Whole Age Baby Self Worth Awful Sense Of Self

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.”

Ifs Made Hero Accepted Dragons Conformity Heroic Strain Non Conformity Personal History Being Accepted

Author:Andrew Solomon

Source: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

“When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.”

People Has Beens Film Used Actors Acting Stage Prove Disagree Finest Proving Yourself

Author:Clive Owen

“When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.”

Kids Wanted Periods All Things Guitar Piano Playing Piano

Author:Katie Cassidy

“When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.”

Three Hours Study Nice Six Classical Music Nice Day

Author:Alicia Keys

“When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.”

Writing Wells Mean Ability Struggle Granted Good Writers

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.”

People Made Sports Parent Sacrifice Gymnastics

Author:Jonathan Horton

“When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.”

Guy Pressure Just Being Being Cool Goofy Cool Guy

Author:Paul Walker

“When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.”

Wanted Huge Gaps Idols Firefighter

Author:Namie Amuro

“When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.”

Said Dad One Day My Dad Swimming Stigma Stamina

Author:Charlie Bewley

“When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.”

Kind Courses Stars Sex Passages Movie Star Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Al Pacino

“When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.”

Knows Want Children Said Moments Wanted Four Motherhood

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they’re quite protective.”

Used Protective Tease Tease Me

Author:Emma Watson

“When I was younger, things came so easily to me. It was just natural.”

Natural

Author:Mark Mulder

“When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now.”

Author:Holly Valance

“When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.”

Ifs Character Figures Tragedy Sticks Teenager Cartoon Satirical Cartoon Character

Author:Eric Drooker

“When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.”

Wanted Faces Bits White Boys Brother Moon Accepted My Brother Peers

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.”

World Age Mother Wife

Author:Wendy Mass

Source: Every Soul a Star: A Novel

“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”

Years Littles Stories Age Three White Keys Thousand Clothes Years Ago Seven Snow Thousand Years Emperor Bedtime Snow White Doomsday Bedtime Stories New Clothes Night Terrors Daleks

Author:Mark Gatiss

“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”

Art Age Parent Loses Vision Gains Lonely Critics Mentor Collecting Gallery No Money Great Times Nothing To Lose

Author:John Logan

Source: Red

“When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.”

Ends Whole Age Used Stuff Appreciate Treats Plates

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)”

Ifs Age Names Boys Cards Sadie Lancaster

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“When I was your age, television was called books.”

Book Age Television Aging Princess Bride Princes Bride Fezzik

Author:William Goldman

Source: William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays

“When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.”

Age Internet Pants Graduation

Author:Dick Costolo

“When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.”

Knows Age Sound Talking Plans Internet Right Now Mark Impact Teeth Pants Grandfather My Grandfather Question Mark

Author:Dick Costolo

“When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that.”

Children Hands Care Bits Confidence Overcoming Attractive Aesthetic Realised Taunting

Author:Johnny Vegas

“When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.”

Play Football Racism Italian Lots Of Friends

Author:Mario Balotelli

“When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.”

School Killing Selling Cracks Gym Time To Kill Sparring

Author:Curtis Jackson

“When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.”

Thinking Dream Lying Fighting Race Planning Awake Restless Furious

Author:Smoky Joe Wood

“When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.”

Jobs Mets Charisma

Author:Larry Tesler

“When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.”

Hard Week Months Hard Times Flavor Flavor Of The Month

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

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