All Quotes

I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
‐‐ Francois Lelord

I didn't intend to become an actor.
‐‐ Anthony Quinn

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.
‐‐ Sonakshi Sinha

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
‐‐ Maggie Hassan

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell

I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
‐‐ Clare Balding

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
‐‐ Eminem

I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
‐‐ Kiiara

I didn't kill innocent people.
‐‐ Bill Ayers

I didn't know a damn thing about style.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.
‐‐ Reiko Aylesworth

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
‐‐ Tariq Ali

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
‐‐ David Bailey

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
‐‐ Otis Rush

I didn't know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didn't know any arty types.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
‐‐ D. B. Sweeney

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read it, that it wasn't a seminal text. I think it deserves to be.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
‐‐ Rue McClanahan

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.
‐‐ Mary Badham

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that my favorite part of fiction had always been the relationship aspect.
‐‐ Ruth Glick

I didn't know anything about running gear when I started out, but after trying a few shoe brands, I've discovered that Brooks are my preferred shoes.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
‐‐ Chris Hughes

I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.
‐‐ Mike Trout

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
‐‐ Carlton Cuse

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
‐‐ Kool Moe Dee

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
‐‐ Olivia Williams

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
‐‐ Nathan Lane

I didn't know children were expected to have literary heroes, but I certainly had one, and I even identified with him at one time: Doctor Dolittle, whom I now half identify with the Charles Darwin of Beagle days.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
‐‐ Barry Sanders

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
‐‐ P. J. Harvey

I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
‐‐ Damian Lewis

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
‐‐ Loretta Lynn

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
‐‐ Jason Mitchell

I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state.
‐‐ Riteish Deshmukh

I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.
‐‐ Nina Totenberg