
Top 100 I Used To Quotes
#1. I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.
Darren Boyd
#2. I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult term, and it's disrespectful, and I'm more than two thirds adult and I'm pretty disrespectful, so what the hell.
Ned Vizzini
#3. I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
Adam Carolla
#4. I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.
Bo Ellis
#5. I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
Lauren Conrad
#6. I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
Matthew Perry
#7. Where I used to imagine you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed her path, you have become the stone itself.
Kiera Cass
#8. I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.
Artie Lange
#9. I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.
Johan Santana
#10. I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.
Dan Chaon
#11. At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Malala Yousafzai
#12. Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.
Meg White
#13. I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.
Ozzy Osbourne
#14. My heart was full of softening showers,
I used to swing like this for hours,
I did not care for war or death,
I was glad to draw my breath.
Stevie Smith
#15. Dariya and I used to play French Revolution when we were little. We'd take turns being Marie Antoinette. Our grandmamma caught us once and had us whipped for revolutionary sentiments. We were six years old at the time and had no idea even what revolutionary sentiments were.
Robin Bridges
#16. The lie came out so easily it frightened me. I used to feel sick to my stomach when I heard Mother tell a lie. How can you do it? How do you live with yourself? I used to wonder. But here I was, lying to Miss Paulsen and smiling while doing it.
Ruta Sepetys
#17. I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
John Slattery
#18. My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity ... and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.
Robert A. Heinlein
#19. When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends ... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that.
Lilly Singh
#20. I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.
Paul David Washer
#21. I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word ... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.
Masashi Kishimoto
#22. I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
James Carville
#23. When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.
Jimy Williams
#24. As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
Mary Quant
#25. I used to run and hide from my feelings especially when I felt something that was upsetting, painful, or uncomfortable.
Demi Lovato
#26. I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
Dave Davies
#27. I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
#28. I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.
Neil Innes
#29. I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.
Thalia
#30. I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
Byron Katie
#31. I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
Joanna Lumley
#32. I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Katharine Whitehorn
#33. I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.
Taylor Swift
#34. I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.
Adam Sandler
#35. I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics
Henry Rollins
#36. I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
Zendaya
#37. I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.
Patrick Ness
#38. I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
Andrew Schneider
#39. I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.
Tom Waits
#40. When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.
Diedrich Bader
#41. I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
Edmund White
#43. I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
Rick Danko
#44. I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.
Mary Gaitskill
#45. I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
Jonathan Dimbleby
#46. When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
Alexa Von Tobel
#47. I used to think love could save anything, but it can't if the vessel's cracked.
Lorna Landvik
#48. As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Skeet Ulrich
#49. Do you pray Lawrence?"
"I don't do you?"
"I used to until I realized God is deaf. Now ever time I kneel, it isn't to pray.
Mia Asher
#50. No, I assure you. I have yet to have a relationship in real life, but I've read lots of Cosmo and I used to take a ton of those quizzes about love." "Wow... that's really reassuring. NOT.
R.S. Grey
#51. I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.
John Waters
#52. My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
Dick Dale
#53. On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.
Derrick Rose
#54. Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
Richard LaGravenese
#55. I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.
Steven Wright
#56. I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
John Hughes
#57. As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#58. I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Emo Philips
#60. I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
Brett Dennen
#61. I used to say, 'Things cost too much.' Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, 'The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is that you can't afford it.' That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't 'it' - the problem was 'me.
Jim Rohn
#63. I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.
Ashley Tisdale
#64. People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!
Chance The Rapper
#65. I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out - a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.
Junot Diaz
#66. Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.
Fred Durst
#67. I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
Luis Suarez
#68. I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.
Annie Lennox
#69. There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.
Mark Knopfler
#70. I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
Bill Peterson
#71. She was 18. I used to spy on her. I hated her but was sexual aroused by her nonetheless".
Harold
Stuart Francis
#72. I used to be good at clothes shopping and whatnot - at least ,I think I was! - but at some point after two kids and a career that worked out better than I ever could have imagined, I looked up from my desk and realized that I wore the same three t-shirts and 15-year-old jeans every day.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#73. I used to come here on my own sometimes ... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness ...
Kevin Brooks
#74. I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
Martin Cruz Smith
#75. I used to hurt myself by training all the time.
Troy Dumais
#76. I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.
Don Alias
#77. I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.
Al Pacino
#78. I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.
Rinko Kikuchi
#79. Fuck you," Alex growls. He shoves back his chair and walks away.
"That's the old Alex I used to know! I understand that language loud and clear," I call after him.
Simone Elkeles
#80. When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.
Jerry Reed
#81. The paparazzi stuff is a little weird. I used to leave the house in my pajamas. I can't do that anymore, but I'm not complaining!
Pixie Lott
#82. I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
Anurag Kashyap
#83. I used to think love was like falling into a swimming pool, but maybe it was as delicate and slow building as a drizzle that turned into a heavy rain.
Dannika Dark
#84. I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
Kevin P. Ryan
#86. I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.
Ross Perot Jr.
#87. I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.
Michelle Paver
#88. Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
Maddie Ziegler
#89. I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.
Carol Gilligan
#90. My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
Madeleine Peyroux
#91. I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.
Tim Pratt
#92. I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
Stella Young
#93. I used to tell myself when I was much younger that I didn't want to wake up one day and be 32 years old and still playing records. It's just not going to happen. Well, the joke is on me, because I'm 56 years old now.
Frankie Knuckles
#94. I don't wear much makeup, except during work. I felt lucky to be chosen to be a model. I used to joke, 'The next best thing to winning the lottery is having a beauty contract.'
Isabella Rossellini
#95. I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.
Bonnie Langford
#96. I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.
Bob Goff
#97. When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock
#98. I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
Steve Allen
#99. I used to stay at the Trump [hotels] and I just wouldn't now. The people were great, but I wouldn't stay at a 'birther' hotel.
Bill Maher
#100. I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
Christopher Walken
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