I Dont Mind Quotes

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy.
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need.
- John Lennon

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
- Leo Kottke

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
- Louisa May Alcott

I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
- Mariah Carey

Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don't mind being a bit like you. I hope you don't mind being a bit like me.
- Ilona Andrews

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
- Edward Appleton

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.
- Isaac Asimov

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.
- Dave Attell

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.
- Richard Bach

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
- Oscar Wilde

Zarek! I won't leave you here to die. (Astrid)
It's okay, princess. I don't mind dying for you. (Zarek)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.
- Drew Barrymore

I don't mind nudity; I just don't do it often.
- Mischa Barton

Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.
- Colin Bateman

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
- Sean Bean

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.
- Bill Bennett

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
- Tom Bergeron

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.
- Sophie Ellis Bextor

I'm on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don't mind people, but I'd prefer not to have a lot of them around.
- Jessica Bird

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
- Victor Borge

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
- Russell Brand

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
- Marlon Brando

I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.
- Grant Morrison

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
- Charisma Carpenter

I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights.
- Raymond Chandler

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
- Neko Case

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
- Iris Chang

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.
- Chevy Chase

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
- Kate Chopin

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
- Kate Clinton

I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
- Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.
- Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
- Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?' said Thea. I remember that she was frowning, and pondering these words, and then she announced: 'Well, I like the rain before it falls.
- Jonathan Coe

apparel, n.: There are times I don't mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.
- David Levithan

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
- Toni Collette

I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire.
"Go away!" screamed Devnee.
He did not answer.
"I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me."
He laughed.
"No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team.
- Caroline B Cooney

I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.
- David Cronenberg

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.
- Hume Cronyn

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
- Macaulay Culkin

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"
"I don't mind at all" I said.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
- Roald Dahl

I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'
- Harrison Ford

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
- Alan Davies

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.
- Judy Davis

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?
- Viola Davis

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
- Ruby Dee

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.
- Mos Def

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy."
You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time."
That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all."
You'd make my bed for me?"
Perhaps.
- Graham Greene

I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
- Michelle Dockery

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
- Tommy Douglas

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
- Jenny Downham

I don't mind telling a dark side.
- Clint Eastwood

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
- Harlan Ellison

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
- Margaret Thatcher

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.
- John Entwistle

I don't mind," he whispered. "If I had a soul, I'd probably wind up in hell anyway.
- Nancy Farmer

I know you so well, dragon king, you only get that particular look on your face when you're burning to give me one of your lectures."
"Do I give you lectures ?"
"Oh, I don't mind. I think you're kind of cute when you do, and I don't really listen anyway.
- Christine Feehan

Do you mind?" she asked.
"Mind what?"
"While you were looking in the mirror I couldn't help myself and I began fantasizing about you. And I figured if I was going to continue to fantasize about you, the only polite thing to do was to ask your permission. So now I'm doing the polite thing again and asking, 'do you mind?'"
"No, Nina. I don't mind at all."
Then she leaned down and kissed him.
- Richard Finney

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Victor Hugo

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

My invite must have gotten lost in the mail," she said venomously. "But I don't mind crashing this party.
-Maximum Ride talking to Max II
- James Patterson

Ian grinned at her, trailing a pale hand down his chest. Luscious, arent I, poppet? Go on, stare. I dont mind.
- Jeaniene Frost

I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen! he squeaked and ran.
- Jeaniene Frost

He looked glad to be on his way and made a beeline for the exit. Just as he was out the door, however, he stuck his head back in.
"I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked, and ran.
Bones arched a brow. I sighed.
"Didn't hear that part? Never mind. Don't ask.
- Jeaniene Frost

-"Luscious, aren't I, poppet? Go on, stare. I don't mind."
-"You look like a Dracula porn movie reject"
-"Lets not speak of him. Like the devil, Vlad might appear if we do."
Denise & Ian
- Jeaniene Frost

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
- Eckhart Tolle

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.
- Paul Gascoigne

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
- Paul Giamatti

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.
- Paul Giamatti

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
- Nikki Giovanni

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.
- Hugh Grant

Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.
- Adam Hargreaves

Come work for me, and I'll tell you."
My eyes went to his. "You are a thief, a cheat, a murderer, and a not-nice man," I said calmly. "I don't like you."
He shrugged, the motion making him look utterly harmless. "I'm not a thief," he said. "And I don't mind manipulating you into working for me when I need it." He smiled, showing me perfect teeth. "I enjoy it, actually.
- Kim Harrison

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
- Debbie Harry

I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
- Salma Hayek

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
- Patty Hearst

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
- Don Henley

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
- Kristin Hersh

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
- Dan Hicks

I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking.
- Christopher Hitchens

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.
- Josh Holloway

I don't mind nothing happening in a book, but nothing happening in a phony way--characters saying things people never say, doing jobs that don't fit, the whole works--is simply asking too much of a reader. Something happening in a phony way must beat nothing happening in a phony way every time, right? I mean, you could prove that, mathematically, in an equation, and you can't often apply science to literature.
- Nick Hornby

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.
- Kristi Yamaguchi

When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody knows because they don't know what to expect. I don't mind a little bit of anonymity; it helps on the subway.
- Hugh Jackman

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
- Janet Jackson

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.
- Reggie Jackson

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
- Victoria Jackson

I don't mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl. And chicken wings.
- Julie James

I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.
- Maureen Johnson

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
- Donald Judd

I like to vote, but not be voted on. I don't mind losing one on one, but to lose through a vote means the majority think I'm a loser.
- Jarod Kintz

My clone will have my mind, but I don't mind.
- Jarod Kintz

Strangers sometimes call me Mr. Kintz, and I don't mind. But I would if I were a hermaphrodite. Then I'd probably want to be called Mr. and Mrs. Kintz.
- Jarod Kintz

Groucho: You know I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world?
Woman: Really?
Groucho: No, but I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere.
- Groucho Marx

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
- Ingvar Kamprad

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?
- Jay Kay

Personally, I don't mind a good cry. In fact, if I cry while chopping onions, I'll run to the bathroom mirror and recite one of my favorite lines from Poltergeist: "Don't you touch my babies!!!" It's the part where the kids are being sucked into the bedroom closet for the second time and JoBeth Williams is at HER WIT'S END! It's very dramatic.
- Clinton Kelly

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
- Edward Kennedy

I don't mind being naked.
- Nicole Kidman

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.
- Michael Landon

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.
- Robert Lansing

I don't care. He'll only be painting his own feelings for me, and I don't mind if he does that. I wouldn't have him touch me, not for anything. But if he thinks he can do anything with his owlish arty staring, let him stare. He can make as many empty tubes and corrugations out of me as he likes. It's his funeral. He hated you for what you said: that his tubified art is sentimental and self-important. But of course it's true.
- D H Lawrence

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.
- Li Young Lee

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.
- Tim Berners Lee

You're not imposing on me. I don't mind."
"I'd really rather not bother you. Really. I'll just see you tonight."
"Get dressed. Be ready. I'll be there in ten."
With that, he hangs up, giving me no choice in the matter.
- M Leighton

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.
- Reggie Lewis

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
- Astrid Lindgren

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.
- Lisa Lutz

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
- Ian Mackaye

But I don't mind, I'm a bit of a touring animal. When I'm on tour that is the greatest thrill for me, playing to a live audience.
- Vanessa Mae

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
- Vanessa Mae

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
- Gregory Maguire

But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as you like.
- Katherine Mansfield

I don't mind not being cool.
- Chris Martin

A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'
- Demetri Martin

Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me in so many words. They should have warned me about Flossie, not about the fires of hell. I've risked them, and I don't mind risking them again, but they should have told me about marriage. They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children.
- Evelyn Waugh

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
- Paul Mccartney

I don't mind my age.
- Heather Mills

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.
- Evo Morales

I don't mind if you forget me.
Having learned my lesson,
I never left an impression on anyone.
- Morrissey

I don't mind demanding women.
- Chris Noth

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
- Kim Novak

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
- Will Oldham

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
- Joel Osteen

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
- Manny Pacquiao

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.
- Brian De Palma

When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don't mind eels except how they feels and maybe as meals. I knew there was hope for me.
- Stanley Victor Paskavich

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
- John L Phillips

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
- Richard Powers

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
- Trevor Rabin

I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.
- Giuliana Rancic

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
- Joely Richardson

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
- Don Rickles

I don't mind being a suspect when the corpse is a shit-for-brains fuckwit, but if I'd killed her it would've been bloody and loud. And I'd have enjoyed it too much to keep it to myself.
- J D Robb

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.
- Doris Roberts

I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
- Ann Robinson

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.
- Chris Robinson

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Henry Rollins

There's something really interesting in the way you shy away from virtuous touch," he said.
"I don't mind the virtue part. It's you I mind.
- Frankie Rose

I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.
- Kate Ross

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.
- Meg Ryan

The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence..
- Geoff Ryman

I, too, like the sound of the rain on the roof. I also like the lightning. It's like some great cosmic flashlight. It makes me think that someone is searching for me. And I don't mind the BAM of thunder because that makes me think that, perhaps, I have been found. That's the way a good book makes me feel, as if I have been found, understood, seen. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story Your Question for Author Here
- Jon Scieszka

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.
- Ryan Seacrest

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.
- Amy Sedaris

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
- Andres Segovia

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.
- Kurtwood Smith

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
- Ian Somerhalder

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
- Robert Stack

I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
- George Strait

I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.
- Jodi Sweetin

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
- Calvin Trillin

I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being a father. Especially when you come out of the chaos of the road to getting married and having children.
- Steven Tyler

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
- Bill Veeck

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own..
- Tom Waits

I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.'
...
'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.'
'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
- David Foster Wallace

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
- J T Walsh

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
- Julie Walters

I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
- Pete Waterman

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.
- Kate Winslet