We Are Not Quotes

I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

I could probably say a lot of things, but I'm not sure they'd be fit for publication.

I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

"Yeah sure, why not?" i said, making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back.

Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

Music is a self-propelling thing. You can not rely on anybody but yourself.

There is a lot of focus on that first rate move, and I'm not sure how important that is.

We're not fair weather friends. We've been in places for a long, long time.

My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain. [Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.

It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.