I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.


Ozzy Osbourne

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There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
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I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
LEFTY GOMEZ
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
ROBERT PLANT
It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
SAM KINISON
I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
IAN RUSH
I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy...
MOBY
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of c...
GRAHAM TAYLOR
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea!
NIKKI SIXX
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
PRINCESS MARGARET
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm s...
ZAKK WYLDE
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR.
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
KINGMAN BREWSTER
I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
ADAM DRIVER
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
TAYLOR CALDWELL
I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like ...
JOHNNY VEGAS
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
ROBERT PLANT
I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a des...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE
I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.
JANET STREET PORTER
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '...
PETRA COLLINS
I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reas...
DAVE FINKEL
There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. W...
MARY CROSBY
I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,...
T. J. PERKINS
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
DEBORAH MOGGACH
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how ba...
EMILY WATSON
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil se...
PAUL WELLER
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days ...
GRIZZ CHAPMAN
I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor...
CYNTHIA ERIVO
I love theatre. It's far more satisfying than film. Sometimes there's a collective sigh from...
KATIE LEUNG
I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too ...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER
It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like i...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn...
JOHN HAWKES
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS
The problem was the mask... couldn't be taken off... so much time has been on my face...
DEYTH BANGER
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much ...
ALICIA VIKANDER
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the T...
MORGAN SPURLOCK
Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.
CYNDI LAUPER
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ...
HANS ZIMMER
I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comforta...
ASHTON IRWIN
My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,...
LAURENT BRANCOWITZ
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Gr...
REG E. CATHEY
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were ...
CASEY KASEM
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it'...
TOM HANKS
I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof ...
JANEANE GAROFALO
Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't kn...
SARAH SHAHI
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce m...
BARBARA WALTERS
It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
PALOMA FAITH
I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger...
PAUL WELLER
I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I kne...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well...
EVELYN GLENNIE
A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danz...
DANIEL BRYAN
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
ROD STEWART
I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people...
SKYLAR GREY
I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I co...
ROSIE PEREZ
This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in...
LAURA HILLENBRAND
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim...
KEVIN MITNICK
If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
DOUGLAS SIRK
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and...
AMY WINEHOUSE
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
There are many projects I couldn't get off the ground because they didn't have white heroes....
EUZHAN PALCY
I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That&...
NATASCHA MCELHONE
People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simple...
MURIEL BARBERY
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn&#...
AUDREY HEPBURN
I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you'r...
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I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to ...
JERRY SPRINGER
There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's ro...
JIMMY FALLON
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Gu...
ROBERTO DURAN
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobo...
OLIVIA HUSSEY
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
I feel like things are weirder in our food production chain than I can even make up. I wouldn't ...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE
I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.
JAMES ARTHUR
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't ...
JAMES HETFIELD
I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it'...
CARLY CHAIKIN
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always ...
BILL CARTWRIGHT
I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.
BETSEY JOHNSON
I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the cha...
ESTHER ROLLE
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn&...
MARIO TESTINO
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
LEFTY GOMEZ
Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel...
JEFFREY DONOVAN
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature...
BARBARA EHRENREICH
You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be so...
HAROLD PINTER
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions o...
ERIC BURDON
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AUDRINA PATRIDGE
I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like t...
RANDY TRAVIS
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a ...
A. J. BOWEN
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES
I don't have a saviour or a royal family.
JOHN MALKOVICH
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn&#...
MARLEE MATLIN
More flirtatious than me. I couldn't work it like she did.
BRITTANY DANIEL
'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev...
ODETTE ANNABLE

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