Told Me To Quotes

#1. My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.

Andy Spade

#2. My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

David Giuntoli

#3. Someone once told me to "be a black belt at whatever you do." In other words, don't just be good or okay - be the best you can be. Not only do I apply that to my work as an actress, but I also went out and got my black belt.

Heather Hemmens

#4. My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

Johnny Cash

#5. Somehow my instinct told me to become acquainted with the pain. When in the company of others I forced it to the bottom of my soul, but alone I wore it on the surface, feeling it like a constant companion.

Sarah Noffke

#6. I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Anita Hill

#7. Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

Matthew Lewis

#8. It would never work, Ellie." "Why?" "Because we're friends, and I want to continue to be friends." "You just told me to kill myself." He chuckled. "I didn't mean it.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Oh hey, God told me to tell you something: Get over yourself.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#10. I'll fix your toes, he said, as plainly as if he'd told me to do my homework. He dropped onto his knees in front of me, then stopped, tilting his head as if trying to figure out where to put himself.

C.L.Stone

#11. I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to. Society has got me so fucking trained. I rubbed my eyes and groaned and felt utterly alone in the world.

David Wong

#12. You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.

Larry McMurtry

#13. I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

Jane Seymour

#14. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

#15. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.

Max Brooks

#16. If addressing a single woman, use "Bonjour, mademoiselle." When I asked a Frenchman how one might discern the difference, he told me to use mademoiselle to address women who haven't had sex yet. I don't know how one can tell, but he assured me that Frenchmen can.

Anonymous

#17. Nellie looked into the forest and decided she was totally a city girl. It looked grim and foreboding. Her red hoodie seemed like an omen. "But Granny told me to never, ever stray off the path.

Sarwat Chadda

#18. One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Imelda May

#20. I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

Joe Louis

#21. The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

Matt Damon

#22. Don't start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. God warned me. He told me to build a boat ...

Noah

#24. She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.

Jennifer Clement

#25. After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

David Thewlis

#26. I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Alexa Von Tobel

#27. My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn't really hers to give in return.

Kandi Steiner

#28. My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

Jeev Milkha Singh

#29. Danaus told me to tell you that 'he will be your Rowe,' whatever that means

Jocelynn Drake

#30. Nay, you attract mayhem, chaos, and anarchy wherever your delicate feet tread. Around you there is no such thing as a coincidence."
"Why do you think it is always me, Director?" Eliza protested. "It could be Books. My father always told me to beware the quiet ones!

Philippa Ballantine

#31. The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

Zoe Tapper

#32. When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Lou Adler

#33. My mum told me to work hard. Insisted that if I did, I'd make a good life for myself. But all my hard work had gotten me dead, tortured, re-dead, kicked out of heaven, re-alived, and now squatting in the bushes behind a morgue.

Devon Monk

#34. A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

Paul Reiser

#35. I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.

Tahar Rahim

#36. I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

Eva Green

#37. Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Mia Wasikowska

#38. My parents told me to be careful of you. That's how I knew you were the onyly one of us we could trust with our lives.

Brian K. Vaughan

#39. But suddenly I hope Xander's right. I hope part of me fell in love with Ky before anyone else told me to.

Ally Condie

#40. Do you have a quarter? My mom told me to call her when I meet the women of my dreams.

Jerry Lawler

#41. You worked for Walmart, Nestle, De Beers, or some other corporate monster. You were wealthy but you often bathed me in pennies. Melted pennies. I let you because I thought you were infallible. I drank molten copper because you told me to. I would do anything you asked me to.

Logan Ryan Smith

#42. My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.
"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"
"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#43. On December third I started following commands. my OT told me to do something with a ball, and I did it!

Amy Rankin

#44. I can't tell him that I didn't see him until they told me to look.

Ally Condie

#45. The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.

June Allyson

#46. I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

Carl Lewis

#47. A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'

Mariska Hargitay

#48. I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Gia Coppola

#49. I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

Doreen Cronin

#50. You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths.

Dawn Jayne

#51. I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

Shelley Fabares

#52. This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'

Janet Morris

#53. The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.

Gregg Allman

#54. He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do.

Jessi Kirby

#55. Excuse me? Does anyoone know where I can find a Mr. and Mrs. Froste? They told me to meet them here this afternoon. Apparently they want to discuss a job. Something that could 'really make history'. Their words.
- Arin

Matt De La Pena

#56. Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

Scott Caan

#57. My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Vanessa Paradis

#58. If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

Jessica Biel

#59. On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

Gennifer Flowers

#60. I remember Tyra Banks giving me encouraging advice during my first Victoria's Secret commercial shoot. I was so nervous, and she told me to just relax and be confident - that made me feel very comfortable.

Adriana Lima

#61. The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice ... all ordinances would be stopped ... many men would be made prisoners ... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write ...

John Andreas Widtsoe

#62. If you are asking me, am I going to be sort of saying 'oh well 'God's told me to do this and do that' well of course that's not the case.

Andrea Leadsom

#63. You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

Haruki Murakami

#64. I told my doctor, "I've swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills" and he told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

Rodney Dangerfield

#65. I twist and pin my hair at the nape of my neck, and then stand with legs wide. It's what Nash told me to do before speaking because men, no matter how many times they profess women are equal, prefer to take direction from bodies like theirs.

Caroline George

#66. Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks.

Sharon Jones

#67. It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.

Susan Boyle

#68. She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.

Jarod Kintz

#69. My dad always told me to play hard and know that the people you're competing with and against are working just as hard or harder. So don't let them out-work you.

Tim Hudson

#70. Many weeks ago, the Holy Spirit told me to watch the dates "March 8 to April 8." He was speaking to me about how beginning with March 8, there was a new season of revival and fruitfulness for the Church. That this would be a new time of fresh visitation.

Todd Bentley

#71. I had never seen a person die before, and human nature told me to try to stop it, but common sense told me not to get in the way of Jude McIntyre and her hammer.

Yolanda Olson

#72. I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

Tori Kelly

#73. We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z

Max Brooks

#74. This was a stupendously bad idea." William
"No bitching, Mr. Death I tried to get you to leave." Devyl
"Deeth! And I regret me decision, Captain. Seriously. Should have done it when you told me to."William

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#75. They told me to just "act like myself." When I said, "How do I do that?" they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant.

Steve Martin

#76. I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

Cory Booker

#77. If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, 'Don't move, don't twitch, don't do anything,' without a doubt, the million dollars would be mine.

Tim Howard

#78. I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.

Richelle Mead

#79. He told me to run so I ran, like a coward, I should have stayed. Oh my God! -Aurora

Candace Knoebel

#80. My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

Jay London

#81. Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

Jacques Delors

#82. Someone once told me to never dream.
I said NEVER SAY NEVER

Justin Bieber

#83. I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Adele

#84. God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.

George W. Bush

#85. Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.

Enrique Vila-Matas

#86. the time when everyone else told me to brace myself for the worst kind

Soraya M. Lane

#87. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Mike Piazza

#88. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading. Teach

Harper Lee

#89. My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Sam Raimi

#90. No. I'm here because you told me to come home. But we both know I won't truly be home until I'm back between your sheets, Professor. He

Ella Frank

#91. Should he plead the insanity defense or the alien-told-me-to-do-it defense?

Wesley Chu

#92. My brother told me to pick him a winner.
So I dug up my nose,
And pulled out a chicken dinner.

Drew Bialko

#93. My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

Amy Childs

#94. When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Stephanie Beacham

#95. They gave me drugs and told me to see a gallbladder specialist to make sure the stone had passed. I told them that hamsters can only blink one eye at a time. I considered this a fair trade but they billed my insurance company anyway.

Jenny Lawson

#96. Someone special once told me to dare to dream. For without dreams, we have nothing to look forward to. I'm starting to believe her.

S.L. Scott

#97. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

#98. My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here.
Bigwig

Richard Adams

#99. Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#100. If you told me to cry for you
I could
If you told me to die for you
I would
Take a look at my face
There's no price I won't pay
To say these words to you

Jon Bon Jovi