I am extremely lucky; I’ve never been ill – although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.
I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
I’m nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
When I first broke into the acting industry, I taught spinning classes to support myself.
When I saw the scene in ‘Close Encounters,’ and Richard Dreyfuss’s son is screaming at him – that’s a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by ‘E.T.’ Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm – and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
I really started dreaming… and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that’s locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
I became a professor myself, teaching bankruptcy and consumer protection. I conducted a national study of mortgage companies in bankruptcy. And what I found was that big banks routinely broke the law.
The most popular rap artists aren’t supposed to be rapping about being broke.
It was funny because on the day that I joined the club, the newspaper that broke the news was one that people don’t always trust or believe. Then, when I signed, and there were pictures of me and Sir Alex Ferguson, people believed it.
In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won’t be many players like me in the future.
Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‘Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.’ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
When I got ‘227’ and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of the world, as well as the element of danger – the actors who thrill us by going for broke.
I never said I’m unhappy about going to the ACC. I’m unhappy the Big East broke up. That’s a completely different thing than saying I’m unhappy about going to the ACC.
Right before ‘Brian’s Song’ there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that’s the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn’t really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
I felt in college I wanted tattoos. I’m really glad I didn’t. I was broke. I would’ve been bargain shopping for a tattoo artist.
The amazing thing is that I’m sane. I’m not bitter. I’m not drugged out. I’m not broke. I’m still married to the same guy. My children don’t hate me.
When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.
I took to heart the instructions my father drilled into my head. Respect the customer. Pay attention to her. Take her package to her car. You broke your neck to get what she wanted because you never knew when the next customer would come along.
When I started filming ‘2 Broke Girls,’ I actually was broke, so I was eating all the junk food they kept on set. But then I developed a skin rash that lasted over six months. The doctors said that it was due to stress, my diet, and lack of exercise.
I’ll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.
I have no problem talking about how hard it’s been, how broke I’ve been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.
Nobody likes being broke. As somebody who’s had to live out of a 1982 Datsun, trust me. I know. I also understand that the first step to improve your situation is to fix the problem that landed you there in the first place.
Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.
Sir Gordon Richards was the most successful jockey – flat or jumps – there’s ever been: champion jockey for 26 years. He set a record of 269 winners in the season 55 years before I broke it. That was my greatest achievement.
If I’m honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did – we all did – but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, ‘If I’m going to sing, I’m going to have to do it solo.’ Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn’t happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don’t make them like that any more.
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians’ leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
If no one ever broke the rules, then we’d never advance.
As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
I DJ’d my first pirate station from a house I broke into in Haringey.
I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.
My dad had always bought and sold gold and other stuff. In ’81, he went broke because of real estate, so he moved us to Vegas and opened a small second-hand store. We always wanted a pawn license because there’s a lot more money in that.
Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had ‘gone Democrat.’
My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.
Until Charlie broke his ankle in Toronto, we were as good a unit as anybody.
I almost broke my coccyx on ‘The Wolf Man’, and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like ‘Lord of the Rings’ until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n’ roll.
After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again… I rode horses pretty well. I just didn’t like doing it.
My mother’s father was from Brazil – a painter, and not a famous one – and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
I’m the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it’s Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, ‘Friday today.’ Tomorrow I will not know it’s Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.
I smashed my tailbone and couldn’t sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was I wiped out!
I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.
My longest relationship with my first boyfriend was eight and a half years. We broke up a handful of times over those years, but he was my first love, I was his, and we were each other’s firsts.
