I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning... →
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over... →
John Sergeant Wise
Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that... →
James Wolcott
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then... →
Fay Wray
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and... →
It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed... →
Ron Wyden
Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.
Kristi Yamaguchi
I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.
Rick Yancey
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
Daddy Yankee
We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
Ahmed Yassin