All Quotes

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
‐‐ Kathleen Quinlan

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
‐‐ Tracey Gold

I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.
‐‐ Bob McNair

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.
‐‐ Ken Caminiti

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.
‐‐ Elliott Smith

I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

I didn't think I would make this much money.
‐‐ Mike Judge

I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised my hand to ask a question of the school president, and he said, 'See me after class.' And the rest is history.
‐‐ Robin Quivers

I didn't think it was cool for me to walk around with a huge Kygo logo on myself.
‐‐ Kygo

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
‐‐ Norah Jones

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
‐‐ Jennifer Damiano

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
‐‐ Harmon Killebrew

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.
‐‐ Masashi Kishimoto

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.
‐‐ Mick Taylor

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
‐‐ Julian Clary

I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
‐‐ Mort Sahl

I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
‐‐ Danica McKellar

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.
‐‐ Stefan Sagmeister

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

I didn't think then, and I still don't, that I was actually sick.
‐‐ Frances Farmer

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
‐‐ Jock Sturges

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
‐‐ Carol Alt

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
‐‐ Gregg Allman

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
‐‐ Tom Scholz

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support.
‐‐ Lita Ford

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.
‐‐ Dick Fosbury

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
‐‐ David Bailey

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.
‐‐ Dwight Howard

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.
‐‐ David Sanborn

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
‐‐ Brit Marling

I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
‐‐ Peter Sis

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
‐‐ Quincy Jones

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
‐‐ Chris Brown

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
‐‐ Olivier Theyskens