All Quotes

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
‐‐ Tim Allen

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't understand why one should be one thing or the other. Writing, to me, is writing is writing. It should be a flexible tool. Whatever skills I have, have to work for me; I won't be dictated by them.
‐‐ Sonya Hartnett

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'
‐‐ Joss Whedon

I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.
‐‐ Aurora

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
‐‐ Shonda Rhimes

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
‐‐ Bernard Hill

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.
‐‐ George Voinovich

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
‐‐ Leslie Mann

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
‐‐ Mike Tyson

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
‐‐ Jeff Beck

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
‐‐ Paloma Faith

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
‐‐ Michael Jackson

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

I don't understand why, to rise to the level of being president of my country, one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it's been held by a long line of monsters. We don't have to support our administrations to love our country.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

I don't understand why we give up genres, and the Western is a great genre. It's a part of the rich history of cinema and who we are as we've evolved as people, as a community.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.
‐‐ Jon M. Chu

I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
‐‐ Laetitia Casta

I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
‐‐ James Horner

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.
‐‐ Isabella Blow

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.
‐‐ Courteney Cox

I don't use a lot of products. I don't even like to wear make-up when I'm not working.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.
‐‐ Marcia Fudge

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
‐‐ Jay Dratler

I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.
‐‐ Christa B. Allen

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
‐‐ Kevyn Aucoin

I don't use any makeup if I'm not doing work.
‐‐ Liu Wen

I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'
‐‐ Phil Robertson

I don't use any real vintage hardware any longer. That's always been the object as far as gaining control of the studio environment, going back to when I built my first studio, Secret Sound, in New York City. The whole point was to not have to pay studio bills anymore and not be looking at the clock.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
‐‐ Amitabh Bachchan

I don't use cages - I've been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten.
‐‐ Michael Muller

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
‐‐ Ken Burns

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.
‐‐ Simon Baker

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
‐‐ M. C. Escher

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
‐‐ Joan Collins

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

I don't use e-mail or u-mail or whatever it's called.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
‐‐ Rami Malek

I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature models; it's all CG now, creating worlds in CG. It's a completely different toolset. But the rules of storytelling are the same.
‐‐ James Cameron

I don't use labels a lot.
‐‐ Jack Kemp