Jermain Defoe quote: "I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'"

People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'...
TERI GARR

My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn'...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I ...
REBECCA FERGUSON

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I ...
ELISABETH SHUE

It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember fe...
JENNA ELFMAN

One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don't laugh. Never say never, beca...
MICHAEL JORDAN

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
EMINEM

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable...
DAMON HILL

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.
JOHN CENA

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look...
COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH

I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let ...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all ...
ANNIE LENNOX

I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are dif...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and...
HEATHER GRAHAM

I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match ...
DARREN CRISS

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My inno...
CARINE ROITFELD

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got u...
TWYLA THARP

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or do...
ELLEN POMPEO

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS

Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they reco...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that gi...
MAISIE WILLIAMS

I like fresh and clean. I don't ever want anyone to smell me and say, 'Oh that guy is wearin...
ERIC STONESTREET

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country a...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
GABOUREY SIDIBE

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I d...
MEAT LOAF

Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te...
KRISTIN CAVALLARI

As great a public speaker as I am, I don't know have - I don't - I don't have the words ...
RYNE SANDBERG

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k...
IKE TURNER

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ba...
XAVI

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else wo...
JACKIE COLLINS

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that...
EMINEM

When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't...
BETSY PALMER

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That wo...
JUDY SHEINDLIN

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed imag...
MARA WILSON

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think o...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. LANGER

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's...
MEL GIBSON

I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li...
JULIA ROBERTS

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don'...
JENNIFER ANISTON

I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
TAMSIN EGERTON

I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking a...
ZACK GREINKE

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I lik...
EVA LONGORIA

I don't want to play myself up as a hero, because it would make me unbelievable. I'd rather ...
HARVEY PEKAR

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a pr...
KELLY BROOK

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I ...
SCOTTY MCCREERY

We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think...
DAVID BECKHAM

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
JAMES AGATE

I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don&...
ZACK GREINKE

There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE

I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say...
FRED COUPLES

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would...
TIGER WOODS

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T...
ZARA LARSSON

I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

Our weights fluctuate: Some people gain or lose, even friends who are average size. If I would say &...
CHRISSY METZ

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classica...
JACKIE EVANCHO

I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for yo...
FUTURE

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#...
CATHERINE TATE

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
CARINE ROITFELD

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That&#...
AL PACINO

I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever afte...
ADAM SILVERA

I will make up a crush, you hear me?! I will look at a guy and say, for two months at least, 'I ...
ESTER DEAN

When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don'...
DITA VON TEESE

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don'...
MARK ZUPAN

I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people wh...
MATT WALSH

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos t...
TAYLOR HAWKINS

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and mo...
ALISON LOHMAN

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would...
EMINEM

I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.
GARY JOHNSON

Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.'...
MARY HALVORSON

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't...
DAVY JONES

I am the biggest klutz on set. I honestly don't think I have ever been as klutzy as when I'm...
LAURA MARANO

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it&...
DAVE LOMBARDO

I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
VIKAS SWARUP

I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I...
ELMORE LEONARD

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People...
IRIS APFEL

I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because ...
CAROLYN KIZER

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are conce...
KURT COBAIN

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think t...
BEN STEIN

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do ...
PETE POSTLETHWAITE

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are ...
EUGENIE CLARK

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accep...
MICHAEL J. FOX

I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
RACHEL MADDOW

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don't even know how it got started because if you ask me...
JENNIFER GARNER

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'c...
STELLA YOUNG

I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first...
ELIZE DU TOIT

People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live ...
MICHAEL KORDA

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinio...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself...
LADY GAGA

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great tim...
BILL KREUTZMANN

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on tria...
BEANIE SIGEL

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or a...
DIABLO CODY

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into T...
DAVID ZUCKER

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubb...
ZAHA HADID

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

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I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

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