What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

I’m not the one who’s so far away / When I feel the snake bite enter my veins / Never did I wanna be here again / And I don’t remember why I came

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

At school, I’d sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn’t know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall...

Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It’s true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the...

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, ‘What kind of an Indian am I?’ because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things....

I came from rather humble beginnings.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Those market researchers… are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother’s big toe was when it came...

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt...

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood’s idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, ‘Water’s polluted, no swimming.’ And I didn’t have any answers.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way...

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn’t got the facilities to develop colored film.

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box...

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated...

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could...

Just film what’s there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this ‘Blonde Angel Image’. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

I’ve worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the ‘Columbo’ show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world – Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you...

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

I think ‘Glee’ was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it’s your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there’s any sort of overlap in content or tone...

I didn’t want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling – that was my real love.

In the ’50s and ’60s, journalism wasn’t a profession. It wasn’t something you went to college for – it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working...

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn’t until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are...

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don’t know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I’m talking like, a hundred...

I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang ‘I’ll See You In My...

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don’t think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with...

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was...

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

Listen, I didn’t know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.