Paddy Considine quote: "I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films."

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou...
KIMBERLEY NIXON

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid....
XAVIER RUDD

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ...
TED DEMME

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myse...
ALLAN SLOAN

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to...
RACHEL BLOOM

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It w...
ZHANG ZIYI

That was it - I lost my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in defense work... I'm an ...
FRED KOREMATSU

I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's s...
SONDRE LERCHE

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all wr...
GAVIN HOOD

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented dir...
SONAM KAPOOR

I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea...
KAREN JOY FOWLER

I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many...
KIM GORDON

I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice...
SAM SMITH

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so ...
TOM HIDDLESTON

All I wanted was for the people of Spokane to have a voice, ... My three months of I call it my '...
SHANNON SULLIVAN

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics co...
HARVEY PEKAR

When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
SABRINA CARPENTER

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I r...
LILI TAYLOR

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

Every time I am tempted to buy some dopey thing, I hear my late father's voice: 'Do you real...
BILL O'REILLY

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ...
FERGIE

I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about t...
GEORGIA HOLT

I founded 'Point Hope' so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children wh...
DELILAH

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T...
JOHN LURIE

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES

And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
SARAH DESSEN

When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving p...
SAMPHA

I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I w...
CALLAN MCAULIFFE

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit...
ACE FREHLEY

I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always ...
PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER

I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I...
KELSEA BALLERINI

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear t...
MEG WHITE

Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I&...
EDDIE MARSAN

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT

I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice,...
TOM WAITS

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I...
RUPERT SANDERS

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS

By the time I was 23 or 24 and had written the first manuscript of 'The Final Winter', I kne...
MATTHEW NABLE

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbeli...
KAYA SCODELARIO

I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same ...
RACHEL CUSK

In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything wi...
KEVIN KWAN

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice an...
NINA HAGEN

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS

I had a hole in my voice. I still do. We call it a hole, but it's an area in the voice where it&...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside ...
JAMES NESBITT

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.
BILLY ECKSTINE

I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called '...
ODETTE ANNABLE

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life&#...
PAMELA ADLON

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a rela...
EVAN GLODELL

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so...
K. D. LANG

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimick...
JUSTIN LONG

There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and tol...
PHIL NIEKRO

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including wri...
JENNY SLATE

My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all...
DREE HEMINGWAY

I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But ...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN

I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to...
DAVID WALLIAMS

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have jus...
K. D. LANG

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there&#...
RACHEL KELLER

For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon an...
ED BEGLEY, JR.

I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my ...
JOHNNY MATHIS

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to k...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's rea...
KRISTEN STEWART

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my fa...
MALUMA

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ...
THOMAS KRETSCHMANN

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to chang...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
ELI ROTH

I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack...
ASHLEY TISDALE

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strip...
PATRICE LECONTE

I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red c...
DITA VON TEESE

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside ...
DIDO ARMSTRONG

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own v...
JANE HORROCKS

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't real...
OLIVIA MUNN

I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained ...
SAM SMITH

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the sc...
RAY LIOTTA

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' ...
DAVID GERROLD

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of ...
ANN HOOD

For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch sh...
NICK KROLL

I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, f...
FIONA DOURIF

Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ...
KHALED HOSSEINI

I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr...
MAHESH BABU

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe...
BONNIE MCKEE

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films th...
MILA KUNIS

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against pa...
GRETCHEN RUBIN

I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and 'What I Like About You.' It's all pret...
AMANDA BYNES

I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a ki...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF

It's fun to use all of my range; there are so many different colors and textures that come out, ...
GRETCHEN PARLATO

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's tim...
JOHN PODHORETZ

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing,...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking fr...
RACHAEL WADE

I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much tha...
EMILIA FOX

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. B...
SADIE FROST

I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

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Paddy Considine

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

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