All Quotes

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
‐‐ Jerry Bruckheimer

I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
‐‐ Diane Kruger

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
‐‐ Adele

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
‐‐ Grant Heslov

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.
‐‐ Jane Haddam

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.
‐‐ Mark Roberts

I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
‐‐ Gary Hume

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
‐‐ Frank Black

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
‐‐ Ian K. Smith

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
‐‐ Yash Chopra

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.
‐‐ Seth Rogen

I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It's magic.
‐‐ Rutger Hauer

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
‐‐ Mel Gibson

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
‐‐ Valerie June

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
‐‐ Brendan Gleeson

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
‐‐ Cliff Richard

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
‐‐ Mark Haddon

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
‐‐ Damian Lewis

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.
‐‐ Jeremy Luke

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
‐‐ Courtney Love

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.
‐‐ Heather Mills

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
‐‐ John Hawkes

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
‐‐ Tea Leoni

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.
‐‐ Joanna Cassidy

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day that Jesus was born.
‐‐ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.
‐‐ Lucinda Williams

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
‐‐ Natalie Portman

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry

I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney.
‐‐ Jessica Hecht

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.
‐‐ Michael Learned

I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
‐‐ Eugene Ormandy

I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
‐‐ Taylor Wilson

I don't mean to say it's not fresh on the space station, but there's nothing like new, cold air coming into the capsule.
‐‐ Scott Kelly