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When I became an actor, I decided I had enough time, talent, and resources to support people who are in dire need of assistance.
It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
There are a lot of famous people who started out with us and became stars and I wouldn't swap my life with theirs for one second.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.
The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.
The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.
We had fashion errors that became hits. We were bold with our colors and tights and being very sexy and the assymmetrical hairstyle.
I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.
When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I'd pick up cables and get told off.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
I had started modelling and doing ramp shows. Then I signed the 'Kama Sutra' campaign. Overnight I became known as this sexy, hot chick.
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.
The weather was so cold in Lisbon when I arrived. I decided, 'Let's grow the hair to hide my ears.' And after that, it became nice hair.
What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.
My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
I got started when I was about 15, or 16. My first break through was the Vans song with my group The Pack. That became a worldwide thing.
My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.
At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.
Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.
Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.
When I got pregnant, I became very interested in natural products. You wonder what you're putting on your skin when you're carrying a child.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
I've always just worn bows. They just got bigger and better and sparklier - and then I became 'JoJo with the bow bow,' and it became a thing.
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.
After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just pushed into a corner.
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
My heart felt empty, and I tried to fill the void with food. However, instead of feeling better, I became anxious and felt like I was lacking.