#weren

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. ↗

— Johnny Cash

#found #got #i #know #limitations

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#in fact #looking #ourselves #stable #very

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#had #humor #i #indicated #know

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#anything #asked #comedian #doing #else

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#cold #guys #had #i #interested

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#anything #coming #humor #lesbian #more

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. ↗

— Joel Coen

#arizona #big #big star #cage #did

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#get #hit #i #just #only

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene. ↗

— Lily Collins

#brought #catholic #celebrity #children #first