Shania Twain Quotes

Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are.

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

There are some people who know who I am but there are a lot of people that have no idea who I am - which is not to say that that's a bad thing.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call me that all the time - it's no big deal. So, whether it's The Rock or Dwayne Johnson, in terms of being recognised I just think that the goal is to be recognised as a good actor. I don't put much thought or weight into the name, or the name change, or what it is, or what does it mean? It's just a nickname.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"

I don't need my name anywhere.

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph.

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

You're gonna know my name by the end of the night.

A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________.

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.

I never made 'Who's Who,' but I'm featured in 'What's That?'

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

A name means a lot just by itself.