I Realized Quotes - Page 15

• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Captains

  51 Copy quote

• It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

  Shawn Fanning

  Receiving, Beta, Stage

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 03, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

  Craig Ferguson

  Linked

  4 Copy quote

• For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Laughing, Bills

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.

  Jane Fonda

  Getting Older, Young

  4 Copy quote

• I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

  Jane Fonda

  Addiction, Doe, Able

  7 Copy quote

• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Acting, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

  Kinky Friedman

  Long, Southern, Ems

  87 Copy quote

• And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

  Frank Gehry

  Ties, People, Stuff

  53 Copy quote

• I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Thinking, Talking, Skulls

  9 Copy quote

• By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, Alleviate, Built

  "Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon Days". Interview With Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

  Ashley Greene

  Play, Thank God, Want

  "Ashley Greene: The Bombshell". Interview With Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Airports, Romance

  56 Copy quote

• I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

  Andy Griffith

  Christian, Mother, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Morning, Wine, Perfect

  18 Copy quote

• I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

  Christie Hefner

  Years, Skills, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  War, Judging, Mind

  25 Copy quote

• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  Paris Hilton

  Letting Go, Thinking, Voice

  4 Copy quote

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  Paris Hilton

  Sleep, Animal, Giving

  79 Copy quote

• It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

  Vanilla Ice

  Suicide, Commit

  8 Copy quote

• I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Buying Things, Shopping

  4 Copy quote

• I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

  Michio Kaku

  Class, Effort, Graduates

  6 Copy quote

• I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Fashion, Book

  5 Copy quote

• Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

  Alicia Keys

  Dark, Blue, Hands

  "Oprah Talks to Alicia Keys". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

  Diane Kruger

  Self, Focus, Littles

  4 Copy quote