Top 100 I Got Quotes
#1. When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
Vin Diesel
#2. I was dating a guy once who spoke rudely to a taxi driver. I got out of the cab and walked home. Treat people with respect. I've waited tables, and that's why I just exceedingly overtip. It's exhausting work.
Kesha
#3. I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.
Cormac McCarthy
#4. There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
Dave Winfield
#5. Alan:I used rabbit-skin glue to size the panels. I got it from the art
shop. I don't know if they use real rabbits in it. It seems kind of a
shame if they do, but then it's not like there's a rabbit shortage, is
it? And maybe they only used rabbits that would've died anyhow.
J.L. Merrow
#6. Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#7. Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
Gary Owens
#8. When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
Tori Amos
#9. I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.'
Simon Cowell
#10. I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
Jhonen Vasquez
#11. I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
B. D. Wong
#12. I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.
Goldie Hawn
#13. I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
Colin Baker
#14. During those restless, shut-up days, I got to know every inch of the room as a prisoner comes to know his cell.
Anonymous
#15. I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
James Bay
#16. When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
Janelle Monae
#17. For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
Linda Hunt
#18. My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
Brian Blessed
#19. The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.
William Petersen
#21. My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Pauly Shore
#22. Finish that sentence and i will stab you in the eye with the spork Bethany's about to pull out of her bag for her apple sauce. And she'd be very upset if i got her sprk all messed up. she's rather fond of the thing. - Dawson
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#23. From DW:
I got it. "Here's the thing," I said. "I'm not going to be the government's bitch.
Tamara Rose Blodgett
#24. When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
Will.i.am
#25. I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
Bill Hader
#26. I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'
Joel Edgerton
#27. [My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older.
Hope Solo
#28. A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.
Jackie Warner
#29. I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
Al Franken
#30. They never leave home without their safety nets and I think, good for them, but the thing with safety nets is this. I got tangled in them so many times and the Stella girls always seemed to leave me dangling, upside down, to the point where I almost couldn't breathe anymore. So I dance.
Melina Marchetta
#31. Misgivings, n.
Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us.
"There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.
David Levithan
#32. When I got my head shaved, it was all over the papers. It's weird that when you get a haircut you are in the papers, it's pretty stupid
Mark Feehily
#33. I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.
Tina Fey
#34. When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
Michio Kaku
#35. I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.
Goose Gossage
#36. I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.
Robert Bateman
#37. In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
Avi
#38. You're my best friend, Kenji. You know that, right?" "Yeah, kid." He grins at me. "I do. And I can't believe I got stuck with your skinny ass.
Tahereh Mafi
#39. In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together ... more and more realizing that's what I do.
Ringo Starr
#40. I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.
Dick Rutan
#41. I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.
Tracy Reese
#42. I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.
Missy Peregrym
#43. Koppel won an Emmy for that show. Miscavige took credit for it, saying, "I got Ted the Emmy." He even had a replica of an Emmy made and placed in the Officers Lounge at Gold Base. But he never went on television again.
Lawrence Wright
#44. So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal ... The wings are knocking people over ...
Steven Wright
#45. 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
#46. The differences in the way men and women are treated are real. And the fact is this difference in treatment has no basis in the differences between men and women. I was the same person, and I was treated entirely differently. I got real interested in feminist theory
real fast.
Kate Bornstein
#47. All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.
Derrick Rose
#48. I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.
Esperanza Spalding
#49. One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
Rory Gallagher
#50. As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
Joshua Bell
#51. I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
Neil Diamond
#52. I'm not a big fan of spiders, rats, especially if they're like - I got up one morning on a holiday recently, and there was a centipede in the bed that big. I wasn't very happy about that.
Tim Burton
#53. I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.
Jenny Hval
#54. I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
Terry Pratchett
#55. For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
Vinnie Jones
#56. I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.
Joss Whedon
#57. I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad!
Robert Pattinson
#58. Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few had smiley faces on them. Squealing, I grabbed the boxes. Books were inside
new release books I'd preordered weeks ago.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#59. I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.
Antony Hegarty
#60. I fell. I got up. I fell again. I got up again. Even when I fell on my face, I was still falling forward.
Cathrine Ann
#61. I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
Dave Winfield
#62. I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.
Erin Andrews
#63. If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.
Michael Wilbon
#64. After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
Casey Affleck
#65. Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)
Victoria Moran
#66. I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.
Jazmine Sullivan
#67. 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
#68. I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story "Bactine." It pleased me a lot more than anything else I'd ever done, so I kept messing around and by the time I got to Ohio State I'd written maybe eight stories.
Donald Ray Pollock
#69. I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric
#70. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief)
Rick Riordan
#71. I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."
Winona Ryder
#72. The older I got, the more I was of the opinion that love can be experienced in many different ways. There is no right or wrong way to love, only in how it is expressed.
Patricia Cornwell
#73. When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.
Gabriela Sabatini
#74. I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.
Mark Zuckerberg
#75. I got very good on the telephone tricks too. Like calling up a company and find out that the plant was going to building a new addition and getting hold of the engineering office and getting the secretary to give me the direct extension.
Robert Greene
#76. I got a business card because I wanna win some lunches. That's what my business card says: Mitch Hedberg, Potential Lunch Winner. Gimme a call, maybe we'll have lunch. If I'm lucky!
Mitch Hedberg
#77. So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
Raekwon
#78. I got some good news earlier today before the show. Thanks to Alex Rodriguez, I am no longer the most overpaid disappointment in New York City.
David Letterman
#79. I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it.
Lena Headey
#80. I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.
Robert Hunter
#81. Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.
Paul Allen
#82. No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
Jackie DeShannon
#83. I've always been the, 'Sure, I'll try that' guy. I'm very adventurous and don't have fears. I think I got that from my mother's side because she was an Olympic skier. Jump off a mountain with a parachute? Sure. What could possibly go wrong?
Donald Trump Jr.
#84. If I told you it was on fire when I got here, would you believe me?
Crash Froelich
#85. My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.
Steven Wright
#86. I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing ... That's what I want little niggaz to see.
Tupac Shakur
#87. I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.
Uma Thurman
#88. When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap
#89. For anyone who's a fan of the X-files show - I mean, I have the ultimate role. I got to deal with Mulder, I got to talk to him, I had a fight sequence with him. Really for anyone who is a fan of the show, I think I fulfilled a lot of young boys' dreams.
Rhys Darby
#90. Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.
Tony Robbins
#91. I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.
Evelyn Keyes
#92. This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time ... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
Bede Griffiths
#93. I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not smart enough to be in the movies. It's a very political world. In all modesty, I can say that I'm a much better actor, but that doesn't matter.
William Devane
#94. There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
George W. Bush
#95. I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound that could be made with light microscopy. So I saw that the diffraction barrier was the only important problem that had been left over.
Stefan Hell
#96. You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.
Robert De Castella
#97. To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
Rick Wakeman
#98. I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.
Julian Lennon
#99. Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.
Kelly Rowland
#100. When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
Jason Calacanis
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