All Quotes

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
‐‐ Merry Clayton

I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
‐‐ Audrina Patridge

I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

I knew I always wanted to sing.
‐‐ David Ruffin

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.
‐‐ Juliette Lewis

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.
‐‐ Tyler Oakley

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.
‐‐ John Gokongwei

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?
‐‐ Candis Cayne

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
‐‐ Earl Browder

I knew I could play really well in one game, score the winning goal and then, come the next game, I wouldn't play at all or I might come off the bench for the last five minutes. So I was frustrated towards the end of my time at Spurs. I wasn't happy.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly getting rejected, it started to get me down. But my voice was always there and my dream and my ambition was always there when I went through bad times.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

I knew I could sing when I was about 7 years old. But since athletics was very much the forefront of my life, and I was kind of doing that a lot, I don't think anybody was caring or looking for me to be singing anything. So, yeah, I just kept it hidden from everyone.
‐‐ Liv Warfield

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
‐‐ Spalding Gray

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
‐‐ David Gest

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.
‐‐ Sarah Waters

I knew I'd be in the UFC since I started my career.
‐‐ Conor McGregor

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
‐‐ Anne Robinson

I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'
‐‐ Tahar Rahim

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
‐‐ Judith Rossner

I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.
‐‐ Gerard Butler

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

I knew I'd never make it back to the major leagues as a player. Lee MacPhail came to me and asked if I wanted to manage the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale club. I thought about it for a day or two and decided to take the job. That was the turning point. I knew it was what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Bobby Cox

I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.
‐‐ Scott McKenzie

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.
‐‐ Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
‐‐ Binyavanga Wainaina

I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
‐‐ Natalie Maines

I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.
‐‐ Leon Bridges

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
‐‐ Marie Windsor

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'
‐‐ Jeremy Lloyd

I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.
‐‐ Karen Elson

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.
‐‐ George Thorogood

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.
‐‐ Ben Affleck

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.
‐‐ Brandy Norwood

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.
‐‐ John Trudell

I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
‐‐ Tate Taylor

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.
‐‐ Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'
‐‐ Stuart Scott