Swizz Beatz quote: "I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places."

I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
JASON ALDEAN

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g...
LEONARD SUSSKIND

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'...
DIPLO

When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle an...
SHERYL LEE

When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbo...
CHRISSY TEIGEN

I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I ha...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I like to collect aprons from different places I go. I first started when I was in Italy because I t...
BRITT ROBERTSON

After I drew the tag for Nevada and Matthew got his tag I called my buddy in Arizona and told him I ...
RANDY NEWBERG

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
OLIVIER MEGATON

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name ...
DAVID BOWIE

It was my fault. I told her to tag.
JOE LEE

The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me....
EMRAAN HASHMI

[There were no tags on the bag that identified it as Troy Crosby's, but an attached baggage claim ta...
SIDNEY CROSBY

Yeah, I'm the Brit who isn't Lewis Hamilton that woke up and realised he was good. I got tha...
JENSON BUTTON

I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
AL PACINO

I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC

So of course I found that 'Goth' tag very limiting and, rightly so, I didn't go along with it. Why w...
SIOUXSIE SIOUX

I don't know how much thought is behind it, but it seems to me highly effective the way that Fac...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN

If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your...
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN

Someone saw my name on that (claim tag). They took a look inside and hit the jackpot.
SIDNEY CROSBY

I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over fo...
JENNIFER ANISTON

There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I...
JERRY LEWIS

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.
IRWIN S. COBB

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' an...
MARLON WAYANS

I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my ...
BRYCE COURTENAY

I think I started doing covers when I was... what, like 9 or 10? I would always do the songs that I ...
SABRINA CARPENTER

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work...
JANE CAMPION

I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistan...
NAEEM KHAN

As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The ...
SHERILYN FENN

On my Instagram, lots of people tag me in photos of just dudes with beards, and they're like, &#...
CHET FAKER

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was i...
GABY HOFFMANN

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a ...
BUCHI EMECHETA

I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I ...
JR

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shad...
S. J. ROZAN

Its overwhelming, ... Its funny. You never put a price tag on yourself, so I didn't think it would g...
EVA LONGORIA

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me...
ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT

Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's &...
KELLY STABLES

We, 'Psych,' saved America. That's the tag line.
DULE HILL

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
BROWNIE MCGHEE

I used to tag along.
BOB REDMAN

We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ...
JULIA STILES

My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli&#...
STEVE CARELL

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I ...
SAM ELLIOTT

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Du...
DULE HILL

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
JULIA ROBERTS

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was...
ANDY WARHOL

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I r...
PAUL THEROUX

When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had op...
BECKY LYNCH

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
LARA SPENCER

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I...
DAVID FRIEDMAN

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off o...
VICTORIA JUSTICE

I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'T...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If ...
PADMA LAKSHMI

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I ...
GEORGE BENSON

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co...
AVRIL LAVIGNE

When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and...
BRIAN BLESSED

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I h...
MATT GROENING

One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. ...
JOSH TURNER

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my ...
ADAM SILVERA

There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have so...
CHRIS ISAAK

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I&#...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision.
MARIELLA FROSTRUP

Every time I would walk in, I'd make sure my name was there. I still do to this day. I knew whether ...
DAVID PAK

I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all thes...
SUNNY DEOL

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would ...
RUPERT EVERETT

I thought the guy at second might tag up,
ADAM DUNN

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'...
LOUISE BOURGEOIS

I would assume it would be pretty soon, obviously, because they probably want to get it done as soon...
DREW BREES

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was wo...
RICK JAMES

I never charge the price on the tag, I always give someone a deal.
MARILYN TREICHEL

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to...
JIMMY JOHNSON

When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an...
MISSY ELLIOTT

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and '...
ALICIA VIKANDER

Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the...
FATIMA SANA SHAIKH

Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don&...
RANBIR KAPOOR

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was i...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

It started in a Pennsylvania town when police spotted the car with a stolen tag. Trooper 4 [the stat...
JEFF OLDHAM

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, b...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR

Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian...
RAIN

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my fi...
MARTIN AMIS

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH

I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. Bu...
JAMIE DORNAN

My first kiss was at a sleep-away camp, and it was very awkward and over quickly. And that was that....
JILLIAN HERVEY

I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN

I had to be off by myself. I didn't want to be in that group because I knew they would go crazy. I w...
CHARLIE DOTSON

Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was c...
AL WALSER

All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was ...
DON MCLEAN

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett...
J. K. SIMMONS

'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
PINK

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was ...
JANA NOVOTNA

Both Maury and Lou were very smart. Lou would say: 'I want to get there as fast as I can.' But Maury...
BILL STONEMAN

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.

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