I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. – Gwyneth Paltrow
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That’s even why I married her. – Guy Ritchie
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. – Galway Kinnell
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand. – Gunter Grass
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist. – Hannah Storm
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little. – Heinrich Boll
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness. – Graham Greene
I always laugh at these rock n’rollers where you can’t understand them. Mind you, it’s not because they’re inaudible or indistinguishable; it’s because they’re too obscure. – Harry Connick, Jr.
Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know. – Harvey Keitel
Tool of Communist agitators… it’s really a joke, isn’t it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand. – Helen Suzman
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. – Helen Rowland
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end. – Harbhajan Singh
I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. – Hugh Grant
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don’t understand about that nonsense. It’s like, all instruments are there to use all the time. – Gerry Mulligan
The best wrestlers, whether it’s a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business. – Hulk Hogan
We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication. – George Emil Palade
The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. – Helen Prejean
When she was too young to resist, or even to understand, I turned my daughter into a lifelong, rabid Yankees fan. – Gene Weingarten
Without form, communication stops… without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and – rightly – no one else is interested in. – Gerhard Richter
I’ve never been able to understand what they mean by ‘Pinteresque,’. I’m sure it’s indefinable. – Harold Pinter
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan’s real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration. – Hideki Tojo
