Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

I come from a background of independent films.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I don't come from a privileged background.

I do consider myself a very spiritual being. I fear being seen as political in any context because it's so limiting, but I do feel Godflesh is a protest music of sorts. That was the background that I came from.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.

If there's no background, no foreground, no opposition, no complements, then there's no change becasue there's no subject and object.

I had a very colorless background, and when I left Ohio and moved to England, nobody knew who I was and I had a real freedom. I could be free to experiment and experience things and I liked that a lot.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I'm from a Gypsy background!

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.

I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.