I became famous almost before I had a craft.

He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I didn’t think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest...

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that’s how it all started.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it’s the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

The drawing of a ‘Pipeline Wave’ started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My ‘Pipeline Wave’ drawing later became the start of my ‘Waterworks Collection’ for gallery prints.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

I became stereotyped.

When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

I think it’s a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn’t...

I focused on how these people became how they were.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn’t been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

‘Dilbert’ became popular during the downsizing of the ’90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of...

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

I had a calling to become what I became – I was created to do this.

I was never really happy until I became ‘Doctor Who’.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

I was the first guest star asked to appear on ‘Glee,’ which we all know became huge.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms,’ named after a classical Chinese novel, and later ‘The Sims,’ a life-simulation game, and ‘StarCraft,’ a science-fiction game.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I’m really rooting for the Red Sox.

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence...

Back in ’93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.