All Quotes

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
‐‐ Rick Moody

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
‐‐ Mary J. Blige

I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
‐‐ Eavan Boland

I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
‐‐ Roberta Flack

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
‐‐ Lea Michele

I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
‐‐ Caity Lotz

I didn't know I wanted to be a gymnast; I was just introduced to the gym. I loved the place because it looked like a hi-tech playground with mats and a lot of things I can hang from.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
‐‐ Herman Cain

I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.
‐‐ John Ridley

I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.
‐‐ Jessie Pavelka

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
‐‐ Barbara Eden

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
‐‐ Marie Windsor

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.
‐‐ David Bailey

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'
‐‐ Keke Palmer

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.
‐‐ Peter Eisenman

I didn't know I was the first woman to have won three world titles, but hey, that's awesome!
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
‐‐ Jacques d'Amboise

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.
‐‐ Michael Reagan

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me.
‐‐ Joseph Stefano

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
‐‐ D. A. Pennebaker

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.
‐‐ Patti Smith

I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix

I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to the effort to re-establish the wolf in the forests of Arizona and New Mexico.
‐‐ Joy Covey

I didn't know much about video games.
‐‐ Anna Torv

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
‐‐ Dennis Miller

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
‐‐ Jordan Peele

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.
‐‐ Marie Osmond

I didn't know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.
‐‐ Sean Maher

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.
‐‐ Kelly Osbourne

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.
‐‐ Joe Sakic

I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.
‐‐ Lil Mama

I didn't know that my son had allergies until he spit up eggs one day, and one day he had a little peanut butter and his face swelled up. I took him to get tested and found out that he is allergic to everything.
‐‐ Kym Whitley