Quotes About My Background

#1. My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.

Sally Ride

#2. I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

Dave Brat

#3. When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was right for just about anything.

Kevin Peter Hall

#4. I had always sort of done dramatic things, and I love them; it's my background. But when I think about 'Fresh Meat,' I just think about the cast and the crew that we had ... we just had a great time.

Kimberley Nixon

#5. You're really not right, are you? (Sin)
With my background and genetic makeup, buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Casey Kasem

#7. A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Katy Mixon

#8. Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

Adhir Kalyan

#9. I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.

Becca Tobin

#10. There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

Emeril Lagasse

#12. The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#13. My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Larry David

#14. I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

Kid Rock

#15. I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

Mario Lopez

#16. The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Isabella Rossellini

#17. This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background.

Barack Obama

#18. Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.

Kam Williams

#19. I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

Cliff Martinez

#20. My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.

Kid Cudi

#21. When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

Florence Welch

#22. Evolution has just been dealt its death blow. After reading Origins of Life with my background in chemistry and physics, it is clear that biological evolution could not have occurred.

Richard Smalley

#23. I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Adam Brody

#24. I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

Valorie Curry

#25. My dad is from India, my mom is from Russia. Fortunately, we moved a lot. I went to a lot of different schools and completely different cultures, so that's my background.

Annet Mahendru

#26. I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Jon Runyan

#27. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

#28. I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

David Bowie

#29. I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Salma Hayek

#30. My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

Gad Elmaleh

#31. Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

Ted Cruz

#32. Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

#33. My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

Nita Ambani

#34. My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.

Emeril Lagasse

#35. Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash ... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

Vicky McClure

#36. I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Danny Boyle

#37. My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

Dwayne Hickman

#38. My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#39. I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

Denise Mina

#40. Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

Zarin Mehta

#41. It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

David Chalmers

#42. I've never been a huge prog fan. My background is punk. My background is learning how to play a bar chord and listen to Discharge records when I was a kid.

Justin Broadrick

#43. There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

Nicola Sturgeon

#44. Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

Joseph Stefano

#45. My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.

Brewster Kahle

#46. I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Jodie Foster

#47. My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Amy Schumer

#48. My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

John Prescott

#49. As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

Richie Sambora

#50. My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

Alan Alda

#51. Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

Travis Tritt

#52. I'm from a rural town outside of Stockholm, so in coming to L.A., I've been able to not think that much about my background. It's much easier for me in this big town, this big bubble to isolate myself from that and be a little more self-confident. I'm here to do my take on soul.

Erik Hassle

#53. The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

Ken Livingstone

#54. See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

John Sladek

#55. I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Paul Rudd

#56. My background is a small town with no movie theater. So ... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

Franka Potente

#57. So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

Petra Stunt

#58. I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots ... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

Rory McIlroy

#59. A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.

Samuel Alito

#60. My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

Tommy Wiseau

#61. There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

Hamish Bowles

#62. Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

Christopher Walken

#63. My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

Frank Abagnale

#64. My background may be common, but I have specialized in elegance.

Cyril Ritchard

#65. My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

Nick Denton

#66. I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I was going to be a composer, long ago when I first started. So it was amazingly fun to do those two routines in the film.

Ivan Reitman

#67. Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

Patricia Polacco

#68. My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.

William Kempe

#69. My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Eric Bana

#70. My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.

Beth Riesgraf

#71. My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it's very immediate when you show someone what you're looking for, and the feedback is instantaneous as well.

Kim Ji-woon

#72. I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Tommy Wiseau

#73. Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.

Nimrat Kaur

#74. I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

Carlos Santana

#75. As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!

Colm Meaney

#76. I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

Anna Journey

#77. My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

Neon Hitch

#78. My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#79. My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

Christopher Walken

#80. My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Cindy Gallop

#81. I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

Victoria Chang

#82. My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

John Astin

#83. I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

Kerry Stokes

#84. No matter what I try to do or explore, my Kirov training, my expertise, and my background call me to return to dancing after all, because that's my real vocation, and I have to serve it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#85. My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

David Crane

#86. Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

David Millar

#87. My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

Derek Mears

#88. I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect ... For after all, they could be my people.

James A. Michener

#89. I know something about the civilization of China, with my background, obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I didn't know very much about it, really.

I.M. Pei

#90. Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

V.S. Naipaul

#91. I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

Nayvadius Cash

#92. Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Daniel Barber

#93. My background is in musical comedy.

Christopher Walken

#94. I wrote 'The Facebook Era' because I felt like it needed to be written, and I was one of the people who might be qualified to do so. Specifically, my background is that I developed the first business application on Facebook.

Clara Shih

#95. I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Anne-Marie Duff

#96. It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.

Jim Gaffigan

#97. Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

Ridley Scott

#98. Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Dave Eggers

#99. I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

Christopher Walken

#100. I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be enough for the presidency. But ... It sure was enough when I ran for Congress.

Bob Dole