Top 100 Behind Me Quotes

#1. I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

Andy Daly

#2. What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

Jane Wiedlin

#3. Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

Wanda Sykes

#5. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#6. I could feel the ghosts of all the girls I'd been behind me in the alleyway, creeping in my wake. I could almost hear my own footsteps as an echo. For a moment it was so real that I spooked myself. I stopped and turned to look. There was only silence and darkness. I walked on.

Joshilyn Jackson

#7. Things aren't always what they seem
You're only seeing part of me
There's more than you could ever know
Behind the scenes.

Francesca Battistelli

#8. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Rosamund Lupton

#9. I'd known love before, and it had brought me so much pain that I had retreated behind an impenetrable wall of indifference, freezing out everything, everyone.

Julie Kagawa

#10. Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.

Billy Campbell

#11. I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.

Emma Stone

#12. They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind.

Michael Rosenbaum

#13. I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

Signe Baumane

#14. Only once can I say "I'm dying" without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.

Edouard Leve

#15. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Nellie McKay

#16. If you have so little respect for me, why are you still around?"
He slipped a gentle hand into her hair and pushed a curl
behind her ear. "Because I'm a sucker for beautiful,
wounded creatures.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#17. I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Lee Daniels

#18. I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.

Tabatha Coffey

#19. Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

Sarah Dessen

#21. They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Wislawa Szymborska

#22. The captain glares down at me, his lip curled in irritation at my insolence, and something dark, something cold and dangerous, moves behind his eyes. In that moment, I do not doubt him. In that moment, I believe wholeheartedly he is who he claims to be.

Lisa Maxwell

#23. It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

Ron Clarke

#24. They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

Cindy Crawford

#25. Don't worry. Don't apologize. Don't cower behind the defeated security of there is no 'room for someone like me'. There isn't room for any one of us. It's up to you to make a place for yourself in the world. So get to work.

Cheryl Strayed

#26. Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
But you and I know what this world can do.
So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.
And I'll wait for you ... should I fall behind wait for me.

Bruce Springsteen

#27. Ah. Morrigan, a voice said behind me. I jumped and spun around. Jesus. She must have been wearing super-quiet librarian shoes.

Eileen Cook

#28. All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

Ernie Pyle

#29. Don't go."
"I have to." A regretful sigh. "And it's best if you don't remember any mermen." He tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. His voice stroked her skin like velvet. "Forget me."
And she did.

Nicole Luiken

#30. Finally, I found a program that's put my troubles behind me.

Maurice Gibb

#31. It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you
the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

Gary Lutz

#32. Never leave me behind; you are the only path I can walk without hesitations.

M.F. Moonzajer

#33. Please let me know if I am not here
Let me know if I fail to find you there
For before the dawn I leave the night behind me
And before my heart I let you leave me behind.

Munia Khan

#34. The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

#35. I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.

Norman Jewison

#36. Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn't be more eager to have mine behind me. So there's really no point.

Stephenie Meyer

#37. Ranger's Cayenne pulled in behind the SUV. Ranger got out, scooped me up off the ground, and held me close.

Janet Evanovich

#38. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Jeanette Winterson

#39. Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Charles M. Schulz

#40. On my way to the office in the morning, there are, in front of me, behind me, other men going to their jobs. I see them; if I dared, I would smile at them. I think to myself that I am a socialist, that they are the purpose of my life, of my efforts and that they do not know it yet.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#41. Damon: "What about me?"
Rebekah: "You have a nice behind.

L.J.Smith

#42. The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.

George Carlin

#43. But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

Garry Shandling

#44. You left me.
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.

Alyson Noel

#45. Letting go of "stuff" allowed the world to collapse behind me as I moved, so I became nothing more or less than who I simply was: Me.

Dee Williams

#46. Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Wendy Wasserstein

#47. Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

James Hillman

#48. In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

Sonakshi Sinha

#49. Hey, sexy. Why haven't you called?" The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette. "Because I'm the asshole who never calls," I replied with a wink.

Abbi Glines

#50. It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

Ben Folds

#51. He just stared at me, his eyes shining blank circles, and seemed to know exactly who it was, standing behind the juniper bushes. But he stayed quiet. He was a good dog. And I loved him.

Matt Haig

#52. I do not want any inscription on my tombstone. A blank stone, because what I would like to leave behind me is the sentiment of a great mystery.

Philippe Auclair

#53. Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Jean De La Fontaine

#54. For me, the dying part wasn't so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn't through living.

Suzannah Daniels

#55. Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it's funny, because it's so completely random to me. It's senseless.

Joss Whedon

#56. This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

Diana Wynne Jones

#57. Soothe! soothe! soothe!
Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,
But my love soothes not me, not me."
-from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Walt Whitman

#58. I had not truly realized how done in I was until I was reclining in the tub, Colin slumped behind me with his chin resting atop my head.

Anonymous

#59. When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

Gautam Gambhir

#60. I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.

Rachel Brady

#61. The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#62. No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Nightingale

#63. Will someone please tell me why you all call me 'Sparky'?" she burst out in frustration. "And if I get stabbed one more time tonight I'm going to lose it!" she added, rounding on Jason, who was sneaking up behind her holding a stapler.

Josephine Angelini

#64. Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.

H.P. Lovecraft

#65. I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

David Lucero

#66. I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -
And my feet stop running -
But then I pick up one -
And then the other -
And I'm running for it again -
I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says.

Patrick Ness

#67. My hair is my best feature, long and wavy, bright gold with a hint of red, trailing behind me wherever I go like an afterthought.

Cynthia Hand

#68. People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

John Wooden

#69. What was that?" I ask as I blow through.
"You were behind schedules," she says, panting but keeping pace next to me as we sprint down the pier. "Figured you could use some help, so I blew the transformer.

Tera Lynn Childs

#70. When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.

Lynn Johnston

#71. All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me ... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

Egon Schiele

#72. You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Andy Hertzfeld

#73. Jeez, was that a lion? Please tell me it's behind bars."
"It's a zoo, Iggy," Nudge said, taking his arms and leading him. "Everything's behind bars.

James Patterson

#74. Mammon finally sees me as I step out from behind his floating map of the universe. The room is empty except for us. Mammon's dead officers have all winked out of existence and are on their way to Tartarus, the Hell below Hell. I

Richard Kadrey

#75. I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera.

John Mulaney

#76. You know what all the plutonium can buy me?" "Yeah it'll buy you one hell of a funeral!" Angel says angrily to man who was behind everything!

Angel Ramon Medina

#77. I really love modeling a lot. Once I am behind the camera and start moving, there's a kind of energy that makes me feel good. But I know I have to prepare for something else before I grow up.

Lisanne Falk

#78. Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

Jennifer Carpenter

#79. I pushed against him but he held me tight.
'You're delusional' I said.
'I'm the delusional guy whose going to keep you alive'
There was a fire behind his eyes. I set my jaw.
'You're the delusional guy who killed me in the first place

Brodi Ashton

#80. Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

French Montana

#81. Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house -Dice (Swoon)

Nina Malkin

#82. Travis pulled me next to him, situating the covers over us. I rested my cheek against his chest, and he kissed my forehead once more, locking his fingers together behind me.

Jamie McGuire

#83. I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Evan Parker

#84. Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

Maria Duenas

#85. One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

Madi Diaz

#86. I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

RuPaul

#87. The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

Veronica Roth

#88. My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.

Rafael Palmeiro

#89. When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.

Adam Rapp

#90. I want you to send a hundred red balloons up into the sky every Fourth of July and make everyone who sees them wonder what the story behind them is all about. Let me live on inside of a made up story, Callum Andrew

Emalynne Wilder

#91. I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Tim McCarver

#92. I won't run!!! Sometimes ... the blood goes rushing to my head..I feel like if I run..I'll lose something important ... and it scares me ... Back then.. Luffy was right there behind me.

Eiichiro Oda

#93. People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead - because I killed her, and when my real father finds me, he'll move heaven and earth to make me dead.

Ilona Andrews

#94. He is an addiction, and addictions are never good for you. He's taking me deeper into his world, deeper into his dark desires, but I'm never able to get behind the physical aspect of our relationship. I just lose more of who I am.

Lisa Renee Jones

#95. There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all ... It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe ... The impression of design is overwhelming.

Paul Davies

#96. I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.

Charles Schwab

#97. Sabine pulled herself out of the water behind him, and glared up as she hung there. You spat on me.

Derek Landy

#98. Lily?" a deep voice called from behind me. I didn't recognize it. I spun around and backed up as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. My stomach dropped. Had he been hiding between the trees?

Natasha Preston

#99. I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

#100. Who would come for her?" he snarled, rallying.
Behind me, a voice shouted, "Tybalt, King of Cats. My claim precedes yours.

Seanan McGuire

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