I’ve never been arrested. I’ve been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.
For reasons I can’t remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church’s beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.
At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I’d be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.
I hate having my picture taken. Ten years ago, I stopped having a good side.
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it’s a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.
The first sign that I’d been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I’d been making toast. ‘First, we cut our bread,’ I whispered. ‘Do you know why?’ I stopped what I was doing and looked up. ‘Let me tell you why.’
Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.
It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.
I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It’s Meisner.
I’ve seen many female comics that a lot of people haven’t heard of who are so funny, and I saw them come up, and they were working so hard, and then all of a sudden they had a baby, and they just got tied up in motherhood, and eventually, they kind of just stopped doing stand-up, and I thought it was such a shame.
It’s about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for the computer.
As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.
I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.
I didn’t choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
The immigration policies that Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing are downright hateful and must be stopped.
When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That’s where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.
The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it’s never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
I do spend really focused time with my wife, my kids, grandkids, and so when I’m doing something or on a golf course, work has stopped. I’m not always thinking and working… I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
I’ve done a number of projects where people go, ‘This is your breakthrough role,’ so I’ve stopped thinking that.
We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.
When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don’t have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there’s a time limit.
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.
The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.
I never stopped working.
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.
When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.
When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don’t stop, I’m going to die.
I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, ‘We need you here with us in L.A.’
One of my proudest moments is definitely UFC 105 in Manchester when I stopped Denis Kang in the second round.
It’s when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.
Can I remember exactly when I ‘lost’ my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that’s the nature of dementia.
I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.
For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It’s time to bring them back.
We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.
The day I stopped fearing my father was the day I could enjoy him.
Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
When I’m stopped in the street, people want to talk about ‘The Two Ronnies’ and the sketches we did.
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself… but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn’t understand at the time.
When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water’s edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.
I’ve been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that’s here and will be here.
Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn’t hurt each other.
Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.
Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.
Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don’t be stopped by your own fears.
Things pop out of people’s mouths that you wouldn’t expect them to say, so I’ve stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.
Both my mom and dad were quite supportive. They never ever stopped me in realizing my dreams in the film industry.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn’t think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped – and I haven’t had a cigarette since.
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we’ve stopped listening to each other in our politics.
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything – or anything – about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.
A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That’s what we do. But I’ve stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.
