Backgrounds quotes

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.
-- Amy Lee

#Bigs #Backgrounds #Folks

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
-- Amy Schumer

#College #Theater #Backgrounds

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.
-- Andrew Sean Greer

#Passion #Soul #Backgrounds

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Party #Made #Backgrounds

I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Children #Shy #Backgrounds

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
-- Benjamin McKenzie

#Loner #Type #Backgrounds

I don't come from a privileged background.
-- Bernardine Dohrn

#Backgrounds

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
-- Billy Higgins

#Care #Jazz #Backgrounds

My background is in health care.
-- Bobby Jindal

#Care #Health Care #Backgrounds

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
-- Breaux Greer

#Character #Backgrounds

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
-- Bruce Greenwood

#Husband #Backgrounds

I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Diapers #Backgrounds

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Poor #Backgrounds #Harder

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.
-- Caroline Corr

#Surfing #Musical #Backgrounds

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba

#People #Dancing #Backgrounds

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
-- Chaim Potok

#Religious #Strong #Backgrounds

As a kid, I had a background in theater.
-- Charlie Kaufman

#Kids #Theater #Backgrounds

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.
-- Charlie Kaufman

#Play #Novel #Backgrounds

I'm from a Gypsy background!
-- Cher

#Gypsy #Backgrounds

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
-- Chris Hemsworth

#Baby #Backgrounds

I never want to hide my wrestling background.
-- Chris Jericho

#Wrestling #Want #Backgrounds

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.
-- Christian Smith

#White #Backgrounds

My background is in musical comedy.
-- Christopher Walken

#Musical #Comedy #Backgrounds

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
-- Coco Lee

#Backgrounds #Raised

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.
-- Connie Britton

#Degrees #Theater #Backgrounds

My background was in performing originally.
-- Cy Coleman

#Performing #Backgrounds

I don't know much about my biological background.
-- Dan Stevens

#Backgrounds

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?
-- Daniel Tosh

#Thinking #Taste #Backgrounds

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
-- David Brin

#Writing #Backgrounds

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
-- Deborah Needleman

#Decorating #Backgrounds

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
-- Dee Dee Warwick

#Making Money #Good Money #Backgrounds

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
-- Dorothy Allison

#Class #Backgrounds #Contempt

I have a strong art-history background.
-- Eli Roth

#Art #Strong #Backgrounds

I wasn't a great background singer.
-- Faith Hill

#Surfing #Singers #Backgrounds

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
-- Gabby Douglas

#Stories #Easy #Backgrounds

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.
-- George Blake

#Kgb #Backgrounds

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.
-- George Osborne

#Urban #Metropolitan #Backgrounds

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
-- Gio Gonzalez

#Blood #Cuban #Backgrounds

I came up from a difficult background.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Difficult #Backgrounds

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
-- Grace Jones

#Growing Up #Jamaicans #Backgrounds

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.
-- Gustave Flaubert

#Real #Writing #Backgrounds

I'm of Arab background.
-- Helen Thomas

#Backgrounds

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.
-- Herbert Jefferson, Jr.

#Strong #Backgrounds

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
-- Jack Vance

#Writing #Thinking #Backgrounds

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.
-- Jane Brody

#Homework #Source #Backgrounds

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.
-- Jenna Fischer

#Comedy #Type #Backgrounds

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
-- Jenna Morasca

#Backgrounds #Delicate

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
-- Jeremy Grantham

#Quaker #Backgrounds

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
-- Jeri Ryan

#Kids #Helpful #Backgrounds

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Heritage #Sympathetic #Backgrounds

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
-- Jimmy Wales

#Media #Mainstream #Backgrounds

With my background, I came out of the theater.
-- Joe Morton

#Theater #Backgrounds

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
-- Jon Secada

#Careers #Music Education #Backgrounds

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.
-- Jose Garces

#Chicago #Chef #Backgrounds

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
-- Joseph Stefano

#Ideas #Hiking #Backgrounds

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.
-- Josh Turner

#People #Wealthy #Backgrounds

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships
-- Lyonel Feininger

#Life #Backgrounds #Continuity

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.
-- Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#Looks #Dialogue #Backgrounds

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed
-- Mario Lopez

#Roles #Proud #Backgrounds

I come from a traditional theater background.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Surfing #Theater #Backgrounds

My background is Scottish.
-- Melissa George

#Scottish #Backgrounds

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors
-- Michael Bassey

#Progress #Backgrounds #Colour

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.
-- Negash Ali

#Rap #Singers #Backgrounds

Choice is always performed against a background of habit.
-- Nicholas Wolterstorff

#Choices #Habit #Backgrounds

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.
-- Orlando Bloom

#Important #Backgrounds

My background is in improv and writing.
-- Paul Scheer

#Writing #Backgrounds

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
-- Paul Walker

#Blue #Backgrounds #Collars

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
-- Peter Mayle

#Southern #Matter #Backgrounds

Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.
-- Pope Benedict XVI

#Heart #Welcome #Backgrounds

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
-- Rick Bragg

#Paper #Journalism #Backgrounds

The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.
-- Robbie Coltraine

#Lord #Backgrounds #Rings

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.
-- Robert Edmond Jones

#Environment #Stage #Backgrounds

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
-- Robert Genn

#Cutting #Construction #Backgrounds

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
-- Russell Baker

#Noise #Journalism #Backgrounds

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.
-- Ryan Lochte

#Training #Endurance #Backgrounds

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
-- Sally Ride

#Nasa #Backgrounds

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
-- Sean Connery

#Surfing #Environment #Backgrounds

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.
-- Sonia Johnson

#Orthodox #Backgrounds

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.
-- Stefan Edberg

#Tennis #Way #Backgrounds

But maybe those things are like background noise if you’re from here. Maybe you have to experience this as a whole new place to appreciate it like I do.
-- Susane Colasanti

#Appreciate #Noise #Backgrounds

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
-- Tamara Ecclestone

#Thinking #Monsters #Backgrounds

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.
-- Tehyi Hsieh

#Harmony #Backgrounds #Discord

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.
-- Tim Harford

#Book #Economics #Backgrounds

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.
-- Travis Tritt

#Bigs #Backgrounds #Bluegrass

I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
-- Valerie Trierweiler

#Committed #Backgrounds

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
-- W. E. B. Griffin

#Military #Backgrounds #Distinguished

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.
-- Walter Isaacson

#Thinking #Passionate #Backgrounds

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
-- Wilbur Smith

#Book #Biographies #Backgrounds

Background for Humans
-- Wilferd Peterson

#Nature #Backgrounds #Humans

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
-- William Baziotes

#Matter #Painting #Backgrounds

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
-- William Standish Knowles

#Matter #My Family #Backgrounds

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
-- Witold Gombrowicz

#Lost #Cases #Backgrounds

The call to write does not respect background or experience.
-- Allen Wier

#Writing #Doe #Backgrounds

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
-- Cholly Atkins

#Movement #Backgrounds #Approach

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.
-- Dexter Fletcher

#Character #Logical #Backgrounds

We differ [with Frank Moore Cross] simply because of our differing backgrounds.
-- Hershel Shanks

#Crosses #Backgrounds #Frank

I was always the one in the background or the donkey. I was never a star, I never got to be the main part.
-- Joanna Page

#Stars #Donkey #Backgrounds

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.
-- Loretta Lux

#Digital #Backgrounds #Composition

Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.
-- Luka Jones

#People #Different #Backgrounds

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
-- Michael Birch

#Want #Website #Backgrounds