Knowing Quotes

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.