I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.
I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?
I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network.
We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand.
I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
I think, generally, the NCOs and officers in a platoon or company want to take care of their soldiers, and they understand it doesn't run from nine to five, like in the civilian world.
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.
We've been polarizing for different reasons. For one thing, my voice is very polarizing. It sits in this place that either appeals to people or really puts people off. I can understand that.
I look at Facebook a fair bit. I see what's posted. I see the travesties and illegalities of what police forces do. And I also see and understand that it is sanctioned by the general public - or we would do something.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.
Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.
