All Quotes

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
‐‐ Brenda Laurel

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.
‐‐ Julianna Margulies

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.
‐‐ Lewis Black

I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.
‐‐ Franz von Holzhausen

I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
‐‐ Jose Andres

I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.
‐‐ Allison Williams

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.
‐‐ Sean Connery

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.
‐‐ Roselyn Sanchez

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
‐‐ Jackie Kennedy

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.
‐‐ Susan Hill

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s.
‐‐ Jason Earles

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.
‐‐ Helen Garner

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.
‐‐ Twiggy

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
‐‐ Gary Ross

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
‐‐ Ava Gardner

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
‐‐ Andrew Vachss

I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.
‐‐ Daron Malakian

I don't understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.
‐‐ Johnny Damon

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
‐‐ Adam Driver

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

I don't understand the concept of always trying to make F1 go slower and slower and slower and have less and less power.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not that kind of a fan.
‐‐ Sebastian Bach

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
‐‐ Peter Singer

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.
‐‐ Richard Rainwater

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.
‐‐ Britney Spears

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'
‐‐ Goran Visnjic

I don't understand this pathetic need for luxuries.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
‐‐ James Avery

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.
‐‐ Julie Harris

I don't understand what's happening in 'Mr. Robot' all the time, and I'm really actually intimated for the second season. I'll have to rewatch the first season, I think.
‐‐ Portia Doubleday

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.
‐‐ Kristin Chenoweth

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
‐‐ Alek Wek

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
‐‐ Aaron Paul

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.
‐‐ Anna Nicole Smith

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt