Had Quotes

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.