It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Irvine Welsh

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
Salma Hayek

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
Kate Moss

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Haruki Murakami

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
Linda McCartney

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
William Westmoreland

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
John Henrik Clarke

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Sophocles

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas More

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.
River Phoenix

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
Elizabeth Bowen

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.
Jean Claude Van Damme

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
Paul Farmer

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?
Mercedes McCambridge