Top 100 I Always Quotes
#2. I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
Lee Hall
#3. I always say that non-violence is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of the strong.
Betty Williams
#4. Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#5. I don't think I've ever played a 'hot chick' before. I always play the quirky friend or the really angry girl.
Hilarie Burton
#6. I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.
Steven Morrissey
#7. I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson
#8. I probably bring four dresses on the road and rotate those. I always wear something light when I go onstage because I move around a whole lot. It's a sweaty business.
Brittany Howard
#9. I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
#10. Writing is like a battle. You're often so into it you don't have any high ideals. You're just doing it. I have all these boxing prints on my walls. I always feel that's what I am, a boxer. I get my brains knocked out every so often.
James Purdy
#11. I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.
Catherine Deneuve
#12. I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.
Russell Simmons
#13. There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction ... I always accept the risk and go for it. I'm convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am.
Richard Schmid
#14. You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
S.M. Stirling
#15. I was this little blond girl with a guitar case bigger than me - it was pink and sparkly at the time. But I always took myself seriously, and I think that people took that seriously. I would tell them about my goal list, and they listened. I was like, 'I want to be the one that swings the pendulum.'
Kelsea Ballerini
#16. I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#17. I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
Anna Kendrick
#18. My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen Hawking
#19. I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.
Cynthia Payne
#20. I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.
Moby
#21. I always felt that I had a mission in life. I thought I was born to play sports. Even now, I still feel that must have been my mission because I came through so many close calls where my life could very easily have been ended.
Monte Irvin
#23. I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh.
Jessie Baylin
#26. Maybe I am looking at you,' he whispered. 'Maybe I always have been.
Catherine Doyle
#27. I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Dan Ariely
#28. I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
Adam Beach
#29. I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.
John Mulaney
#30. She put the steaming mutton down in front and he smacked his lips 'they taught you something where you came from, anyway,' he said. 'I always say there's two things women ought to do by instinct, and cookin's one of 'em.
Daphne Du Maurier
#31. He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie
#32. As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
Adam DeVine
#33. I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.
Alexa Vega
#36. I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.
Rodney Brooks
#37. I always thought we were indefeatable. Like nothing could stop us. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I still do.
Josiah Morgan
#38. His long fingers curled around the back of her lace thong, pulling the material taut against her wet fold. "I'm a big guy, and you know I always deliver.
Avery Flynn
#39. I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.
Amy Winehouse
#40. I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'
Domo Genesis
#41. In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I was, but not always, not so. When the world was good enough in my sight, when it behaved as wildly and gorgeously as I always knew it could, I told the truth of it.
Catherynne M Valente
#43. Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
Ann Brashares
#44. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
Mike Berenstain
#45. I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
Joel Osteen
#46. I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
George Smoot
#47. I always expect unexpected challenges. Boxing is not an easy sport.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#48. I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.
Michael Jackson
#49. But I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now.
Amy Reed
#50. So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.
Robyn Hitchcock
#51. I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.
Bill Ayers
#52. I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.
John Niven
#53. When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.
Joel Stein
#54. Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.
Tom Watson
#55. I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
John Lasseter
#56. I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing.
Joan Juliet Buck
#57. I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.
Eliza Doolittle
#58. I always was a rebel ... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted ... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
John Lennon
#59. I always thought that the way to believe more deeply was to surround myself with other Christians. After all, isn't that the traditional tool for religious socialization?
Philip Clayton
#60. I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.
Kevin Systrom
#61. Better hyperactive rather than radioactive, I always say.
Stephanie Tom
#62. I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.
Derek Jeter
#63. But I can't translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the original way.
DarknessAndLight
#64. I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.
Lisa Marie Presley
#65. Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.
Graham Elliot
#66. I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman
#67. I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#68. I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.
James Stewart
#69. I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
Estelle
#70. I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.
John C. Maxwell
#71. I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.
Drake
#72. I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.
Gavin Rossdale
#73. My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey
#74. I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.
Seanan McGuire
#75. I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!
Rick Tramonto
#76. I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.
Vicki Lesage
#78. I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Francine Pascal
#79. Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#80. I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.
Michelle Branch
#81. I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.
Grace Helbig
#82. I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
#83. And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
Oksana Baiul
#84. I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
Vincent Cassel
#85. I've been extremely lucky in that I've been a very successful model for a long time. So now I'm an actress and a mother. I'm a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be - I've wanted to act since I was 14 - and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.
Jerry Hall
#86. I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.
Gina Holden
#87. Now there's a power," he said. "Harnessing the lightning! The dream of mankind!"
The Unnamed Boat surged forward.
"Is it? It's not my dream," said Didactylos. "I always dream of a giant carrot chasing me through a field of lobsters.
Terry Pratchett
#88. I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.
Mark Leyner
#89. He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want ...
Kristen Schaal
#90. I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#91. I always look for contradiction in a character.
Rebecca Hall
#92. I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.
David Morse
#93. I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.
Robert Irvine
#94. I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.
Kelsea Ballerini
#95. I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.
Damien Hirst
#96. I always want to think of myself as an underdog.
Donald Trump
#97. I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time we met.
Jessica Pine
#98. I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.
Steven Soderbergh
#99. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.
Jana Novotna
#100. I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.
Danny Boyle
