I never thought that I would be creating my own ‘cross-over’ genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together. – Sarah Brightman
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven. – Sophie Hannah
For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, ‘I’m going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.’ – Susanne Bier
I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters. – Stephanie Leonidas
I’ve always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it’s not the lines you say that are important – it’s what exists between the lines. What I’m compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken. – Vera Farmiga
Even though ‘Heathers’ didn’t make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it. – Winona Ryder
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. – Suzanne Farrell
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn’t time for endless refinements. – Tony Fadell
Supermarkets didn’t even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I’d been round the back. I’d seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it. – Tristram Stuart
I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn’t move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience. – Wyatt Russell
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying – from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it’s the funniest show on television. – Sean Hayes
I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. – Spike Milligan
The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, ‘You changed the way that I thought about Chris Darden.’ – Sterling K. Brown
In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody. – Terry Francona
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. – Toni Cade Bambara
I was single for a while and dating and… I just didn’t know how to do it! I’ve always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend. – Winona Ryder
I can’t comprehend that I’m in the film of ‘Les Miserables.’ It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. – Samantha Barks
I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast. – Sally Watson
Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. – Tim Conway
The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge – it wasn’t a little black Gucci dress. – Victoria Beckham
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old. – Takeshi Kitano
I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair. – Tracee Ellis Ross
I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go! – Shahid Kapoor
I had become shy of life’s bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world. – Selma Lagerlof
The bottom line is that Ebola is hard to treat, and when the first patient ever with Ebola came to the United States, we thought the guidelines would protect the health care workers. – Tom Frieden
