Background Quotes

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

People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

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

I don't come from a privileged background.

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

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

My background is Scottish.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

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

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

My background is in health care.

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

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

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

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

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

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

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background.

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

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

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

With my background, I came out of the theater.

Merit should count more than academic background.

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

I come from a very working-class background.

My family background was deeply Christian.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

I have a strong art-history background.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

My background is in improv and writing.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

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

My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.

I don't know much about my biological background.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

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

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

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

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.