Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Ronnie Dunn

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

Umberto Eco

The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

Tyler Hilton

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

Tyler Blackburn

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Tyler Oakley

I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.

Tre Cool

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Travis Barker

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

Travis Barker

My chops are still up, even though I`m not still in high school.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Michael Ironside

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Brad Callow

We're hoping to sell our EP at our gigs and market it to radio stations and record labels. Our end goal is to get signed to a major label.

Roald Dahl

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Kenny Cunningham

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Krist Novoselic

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

Juice Newton

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

Emma Goldman

Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.

John Doerr

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Jimmy Wales

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Chuck Feeney

There is nothing wrong with a big bet, if a big bet is a good bet.