Best 18854 quotes in «way quotes» category

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

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

I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part of the entire process - and the most private. I'm so used to doing that alone. Unlike every other part, it's just me, alone, on location.It's very hard to describe what I'm looking for - something that feels both familiar and strange at the same time. It's not enough for it just to be strange or mysterious, it also has to feel very ordinary, very familiar, and very nondescript.

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

I wasn’t raised with a specific religion. I wasn’t raised to judge people in any way.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible. ... I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day.

I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!

I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!

I was on my own, living in Los Angeles, and I didn't know my way around, so I thought I'd walk everywhere. Well, that certainly got me noticed. Any woman who walks any distance at all is automatically regarded as a hooker!

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

I was really impressed with Naomi [Watts]. She was a producer, and she was doing things that I wasn't really aware of. The way she was able to switch from handling problems to shoot a really difficult scene, I think is a real testament to her true ability.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that I guess I was naturally given and lucky to have an loved all of my life, but didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to do it the right way.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.