#had

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#after #again #because #encouraging #go

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#college #crawl #every #every step #get

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#bullying #dye #fact #had #hair

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#dad #education #had #hard #incredibly

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#actor #anything #being #choose #had

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#art school #become #brought #did #father

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#better #candidate #democratic #democratic process #going

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#age #bad #been #book #children

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#during #first #had #i #procedure