#asked

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. ↗

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#actress #asked #course #early #everyone

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue. ↗

— Jay Leno

#asked #baseball #because #during #fact

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic? ↗

— Jay Leno

#important #me #paper #plastic #something

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#edinburgh #i #poetry #residence #ridiculous

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#back #cash #east #guess #had

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#autograph #got #i #meeting #went

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#cracks #doll #fat #feel #honored

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. ↗

— Jack Markell

#business #business leaders #counted #hand #leaders

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. ↗