I Felt Like Quotes

#1. Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

Wale

#2. We lived in Colorado, and my parents were outdoorsy mountain people. My father would always say, 'Go out and don't come back until you have something to show me.' Which meant he wanted me to come back with a scraped knee or an injury. When I went out to play, I felt like I'd better get hurt.

Jessica Biel

#3. You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

Nicholas D'Agosto

#4. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.

Regina King

#5. I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.

Juli Inkster

#6. So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed.

Sue Grafton

#7. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.

Tony Hsieh

#8. And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.

Augusten Burroughs

#9. I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

George Weinberg

#10. I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

Boi-1da

#11. He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.

Anna Jarzab

#12. I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

Tucker Elliot

#13. I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

Errol Flynn

#14. I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Chaz Bono

#15. Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

#16. I couldn't move. I couldn't feel and I was numb. I sat there until it was dark. I could see shadows and then, nothing; darkness. I sat there until my body couldn't take it anymore. I felt like I had died too.

M. Robinson

#17. I went to Washington several times at the request of different parties to talk about education reform. I used to always say I felt like I needed to take a shower after I left, because it was so partisan that I just really hated it.

Paul Sadler

#18. I've been successfully wearing my TWA during the fashion month in September 2015, but also I felt like my third appearance at a Victoria's Secret show would be more meaningful or impactful if I could help a few women embrace their natural beauty.

Maria Borges

#19. I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

Robert Downey Jr.

#20. I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.

Jenny Lewis

#21. The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

Selena Gomez

#22. I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

Idina Menzel

#23. I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

Mona Simpson

#24. I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

Troy Polamalu

#25. When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.

Thomas H. Cook

#26. Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet

Mae Jemison

#27. I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

Forest Whitaker

#28. You get a feeling about things, and if you trust yourself, which I've grown to do, I felt like I had a pretty good indication of how to play the role.

Brian Geraghty

#29. I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)

Frans De Waal

#30. When I was small I felt like a Superhero as my father threw me up in the air.
Now after reaching this success peak I unmask - Real Superhero made me Superhero!

Hasil Paudyal

#31. I felt ancient and exhausted. I felt like a prisoner within myself and as if I was just watching a movie that was playing before my eyes. I just wanted all of it to end and disappear; I wanted to disappear.

J.M. Northup

#32. As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

Shawn Ashmore

#33. I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music ... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

Jenny Lewis

#34. One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.

Shania Twain

#35. I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

J. Cole

#36. I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

Tila Tequila

#37. The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds,

Carol Rifka Brunt

#38. Will you be all right? she asked
How could I be?
Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.

Carol Matas

#39. Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Diane Lane

#40. For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

#41. You know how sometimes when you come home and you haven't seen a place for so long that it seems unbelievably beautiful, and you want to cry because you love it so much you think it's going to break your heart? I felt like that, too. I am HOME.

Elizabeth Wein

#42. Little people irritate me. I felt like this monstrous giant alongside them.

Melina Marchetta

#43. I felt like people really do their best work when they're having a really good time and feel safe to push the envelope and make a jackass out of themselves.

Clark Gregg

#44. When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

Adam Driver

#45. As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Orhan Pamuk

#46. I felt like shit, but it was happy shit.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#47. I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.

Harvey Martin

#48. I felt like I was losing some imaginary battle over the forces of fate and love.

Jessica Fox

#49. And who was I? No one, really. Just a girl. But seeing myself through his eyes... I felt like so much more.

Kiera Cass

#50. Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that hmm? I felt like laughing in his face: How can your solitary finish? That's the best laugh yet.

Patrick McCabe

#51. I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woody Harrelson

#52. In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

Paul Robeson

#53. I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Jim Butcher

#54. Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.

Craig Ferguson

#55. I felt like I was seeing Shannon through a new lens, undistracted by Jennifer's nuclear glow. I could see how pretty she really was, how kind her eyes were.

Kenneth Oppel

#56. I felt like a drop of rain in a spiderweb, and I was careful not to slide down. We

Elena Ferrante

#57. I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.

Ross Macdonald

#58. I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Dennis Rodman

#59. I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

America Ferrera

#60. I was sad but it felt like the sadness was pouring out of me instead of poisoning me. I felt like I had been sleeping in the dark, not knowing I was in a coffin until someone pried the lid off. It hurt, but it was good, the way love is supposed to be.

Elliott James

#61. I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.'

Gilbert Hernandez

#62. And though I wanted to know more about Hadley, I also didn't want to hear him talk about her. But I felt like we had gone looking for this girl, and the only impressions I had of her were from Drew and Bronwyn.

Anonymous

#63. I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

Halle Berry

#64. I felt like I should be wearing a sign that said "damaged" or "failure" or, at least, "injured." But some wounds only scar on the inside. Ryder

Devon Monk

#65. When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

Alicia Silverstone

#66. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.

Criss Angel

#67. I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#68. Last month, as Victor drove me home so I could rest, I told him that sometimes I felt like his life would be easier without me. He paused a moment in thought and then said, It might be easier. But it wouldn't be better.

Jenny Lawson

#69. I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

Susan Glaspell

#70. I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Moby

#71. I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Naima Adedapo

#72. My brothers were my idols. I've always looked up to them and was proud to be their baby sister. I felt like they gave me some cool points, too.

Shelley Hennig

#73. The cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy.

Jim Butcher

#74. On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

Dave Franco

#75. I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

Kanye West

#76. When I was in college, I wrote poetry very seriously, and then once I had started writing short stories, I didn't go back to poetry, partially because I felt like I understood how incredibly difficult it was.

Elizabeth McCracken

#77. I guess when I got into my preteens, I turned about 12 and I decided to sing R&B, because I felt like one day there were some things I felt like I would want to say, that I couldn't say with gospel music.

Jazmine Sullivan

#78. I coughed and the action caused my stomach to erupt in pain, I felt like crying but didn't incase Micah was somewhere near and could see or hear me. She beat me up with ease, but I wouldn't give her the satisfaction of seeing or hearing me cry.

L.A. Casey

#79. I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Mila Kunis

#80. I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.

Mary Lambert

#81. I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Alanis Morissette

#82. I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.

Jake Paltrow

#83. Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

John Green

#84. It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand.

Michael Vick

#85. She was gifted at charm. I never valued that in her before, but I felt like kissing her hand now. I should write to Eric and thank him for being a self-centered idiot.

Kristan Higgins

#86. When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

James Frey

#87. I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

Phillipa Bornikova

#88. I felt like putting a bullet between the
eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its
species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers
and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted
to breathe smoke.

Chuck Palahniuk

#89. The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old life.

Samantha Schutz

#90. It'd taken only a few hours, but I felt like Michelangelo staring at the Sistine Chapel after four years of hard labor, like Banksy after spending six days searching the Internet for ideas to steal and three minutes of sidewalk vandalism to execute them.

Paul Beatty

#91. When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

Adam DeVine

#92. I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

Nick Nolte

#93. Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

Ray Harryhausen

#94. I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time.

Angelina Jolie

#95. I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

Billy Corgan

#96. I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

Adam Levine

#97. I hated living in the small and claustrophobic atmosphere of my house. It didn't feel like home anymore. I felt like an unwanted guest.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#98. I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

Alysha Speer

#99. I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.

Charley Pride

#100. When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.

Lin-Manuel Miranda