Top 100 I've Been Quotes
#1. I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.
George W. Bush
#2. I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#3. I've been given the opportunity to be alive in this day and age, and it's rare.
Adrian Grenier
#4. I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.
Charles Durning
#5. But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.
Piers Anthony
#6. You just admitted you're mine," he replied slowly. "I've been wonderin' if I could take you - whether I should take you. I keep thinkin' about Noah and whether it's right for him, but now I get none of it matters, because you're mine already.
Joanna Wylde
#8. I can't count the number of times I've been sound asleep, woke up, and I was doing my hair.
Bill Engvall
#9. Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
Brian Wilson
#10. I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Sondre Lerche
#11. I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
Cameron Diaz
#12. You are incorrigible."
"I know." She sighed happily. "All the shit we've been through - all the shit I've been through - and I can still make lascivious jokes with the best of them. That's impressive, Merit. That's character.
Chloe Neill
#13. I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
Robert M. Gates
#14. I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Khaled Hosseini
#15. My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
Christina Milian
#16. I've been taking it easy on you, kid, can tell you're having fun. But it's all sensation to you so far. I haven't pushed you, taken you out of yourself, looked for that place inside where you give yourself to your top. Sometimes pleasure can take a bottom there, but more often it's pain that does.
Anne Thomas
#17. I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.
Leona Lewis
#18. All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.
Germany Kent
#19. I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album.
Elton John
#20. I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
Jonathan Demme
#21. And just in general, I'm better. Better than I've been since Bram died, and in some ways better than I was even before that. No, Lulu didn't break my hear. But I'm beginning to wonder if in some roundabout way, she fixed it.
Gayle Forman
#22. And then my soul saw you and it kind of went Oh there you are. I've been looking for you.
Pleasefindthis
#23. I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
Don McCullin
#24. I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
Ty Cobb
#25. I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
Kate Dickie
#26. When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
Ian McKellen
#27. I'd love to find some people to teach advanced meditation to. I've been looking for many years. There are a few around. Once in a while I run into another one. It's a very limited league at this time, in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#28. I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.
Freddy Adu
#29. All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.
Faith Hill
#30. I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.
Tobias Menzies
#31. At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.
Betty Comden
#32. I've always had real good taste; no matter how poor I've been, I've had good taste in clothes.
Georgia Holt
#33. I'm a stylist, so I've been conditioned to setting up my own clothes like a fitting.
Brad Goreski
#34. I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.
Adam Dunn
#35. I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.
Charlie Worsham
#36. I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.
Moby
#37. I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.
Shirley Temple
#38. I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.
Julie Benz
#39. If you can't tell your own family how you feel, then what's the point in having one?" I shook my head. "I've been here before with 'family.' I just thought this one was different.
Nancy N. Rue
#40. I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella Adler for years. People don't know that much about it. They just think I am these people. But I've been in this comedy racket, because it's just how everybody wants to see me.
Michael Richards
#41. I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
Diane Warren
#42. I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?
Luis J. Rodriguez
#43. I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.
Lucy Walker
#44. Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
Damien Hirst
#45. When I'm with you, it's like I've been seeing black-and-white and you're the only spot of color; like I'm drowning and falling and gasping for breath all at once, and I feel so unbelievably happy.
Jacqueline Pawl
#46. When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.
Steve Carell
#47. I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
Conor Maynard
#48. I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
Edward Snowden
#50. Do you feel that, Brynlee? I should be in top physical shape from the cardio my heart gets. This is what has happened every time I've been around you for over two years, and baby, now that I've kissed these lips ...
Scarlet Wolfe
#51. Even though I'm resting I'm accomplishing something by sewing that shirt that I've been meaning to sew for weeks. And it's relaxing. It's so very meditative and quiet and enjoyable. But at least I'm producing something. I'm being productive in some way. I have a very hard time being completely idle.
Evangeline Lilly
#52. Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
Dana Hill
#54. Sevro snorts. "What do you think I've been doing this whole time, you silky turd? Wanking off in the bushes?"
Cassius and I look at each other.
"Kind of," I say.
"Yeah, actually," Cassius agrees.
Pierce Brown
#55. I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.
Patricia Clarkson
#56. I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
Taylor Momsen
#57. For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.
Merzbow
#58. I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.
Michael Gira
#59. They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
Crystal Chappell
#60. Even the grandest lives come down to a few people and places. Loved ones, your daily work, your neighborhood. I don't mean that in a belittling way. I've been realizing how complete our lives can be with just the few people and activities you most love.
Daphne Kalotay
#61. I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.
Joe Mande
#62. What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.
Bonnie Raitt
#63. I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
Daphne Guinness
#64. These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
Thomas Frank
#65. I'm a Thelemite. I believe in Thelema, which is Crowley's so-called religion. There are some practitioners here who do something called the Gnostic Mass. I've been to that a few times, but basically, I'm a loner. I don't really need other people.
Kenneth Anger
#66. Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful."
Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them.
Lisa Renee Jones
#67. I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
Evan Parker
#68. I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
Casey Stengel
#69. I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.
Kenny G
#70. I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid 'EastEnders' fan. I've watched it all my life, and so have my family.
Eliza Doolittle
#71. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
#72. I've been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don't have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.
Eric Kandel
#73. I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.
Kim Clijsters
#74. I've been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It's like my last luxury.
Lana Del Rey
#75. I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that.
Richard Branson
#76. I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
Woody Norris
#77. I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
Michael Palin
#78. I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.
Ralph Stanley
#79. Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
Mackenzie Crook
#80. I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
Bear Grylls
#81. I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. All this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips ...
John Geddes
#83. I have a really great group of fans. I've been very blessed.
Jaime Pressly
#84. I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well.
Jimmy Jean-Louis
#85. I'm not that afraid of heights. I've been 7,000 feet above sea level. Just so long as the land is flat, with no sudden drop-offs, I'm fine.
Jarod Kintz
#86. No," Trey says. "Males rarely touch each other." "Really?" "And females rarely touch males they don't know or who aren't a part of their family," he adds, making me feel awkward all of a sudden. I've been holding his hand all day, I think, feeling stupid.
Amy A. Bartol
#87. There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.
Peter Criss
#88. You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.
Adam Young
#89. No, thank you," he flashed that grin of his. "I've been wondering what the lair of a poetry-inclined psychologist looks like.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#91. I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.
Jonathan Davis
#92. Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don't enjoy doing press. I've been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don't particularly like talking about my personal life.
Donald J. Trump
#93. I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
Masi Oka
#94. I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can.
Jesse McCartney
#95. I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.
Henry Rollins
#97. You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
Charles Olson
#98. The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
Derek Jeter
#99. I'm real happy. I've been lucky in love, and I've got a wonderful kid now, and things have been going well.
James Mercer
#100. The truth is, I'm so deep in love with you, I can't see straight. The truth is, I've been afraid to admit it to myself, let alone you. The truth is, I'm terrified.
Fisher Amelie
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