Top 1200 Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
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.
Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.
The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just background to what we're really trying to do.
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.
One of the things I liked about my character in 'Run' is that she can just disappear into the background if she wants, which is what I'm like.
My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'
I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.
I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.
I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did Oliver here I played the Artful Dodger and I did The Sound of Music.
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.
I am a simple girl from a simple background, and I think fans have appreciated my authenticity. What you see is definitely what you get with me.
I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.
In this movie, 'Jigarthanda,' audience can feel it as English movie because this BGM is totally different from Indian background score.
On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
I love D.C. - people who have such cosmopolitan background, who are doing interesting things. It's a fraction of the size of Manhattan but the knowledge that people have is amazing.
I love the plus (fashion) industry! It embraces a lot of women who would otherwise disappear into the background. I truly love what I do!
I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.
There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.
You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist.
Because of my sports background, I know how to overcome wear and tear and how to temporarily fix injuries on the spot.
Country was always in the background, but now it's the voice of the people. That's what the people want to sing, you know? I'm really thrilled to be a part of it.
I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.
I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.
I've said it before, that I think if we can have any woman from any other background to come into the WWE, it makes it better for the performers.
I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!
I didn't come from a background where I was hurt, but I felt hurt inside.
I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience
I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
What can I say? I was there at the right place and with the right people. My theatre background helped a lot in shaping my comic streak.
I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.
Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.
Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.
Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.
I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
'Neerja' is such a solid film. Everything about the film has substance, be it sound, writing, story, background scores, or direction.
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.
I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.
I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.
I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.
