Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

- Francis Ford Coppola

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

- Joely Richardson

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

- Jennifer Lynch

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

- John Eccles

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

- John Bercow

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

- Jamie Cullum

People come up to me and they're usually nice, but as it goes on you realise that some people aren't nice. Some people are not nice at all.

- James McAvoy

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

- Hugh Bonneville

I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was.

- Hugh Grant

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

- Gloria Gaynor

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

- Amanda Hale

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

- Daria Werbowy

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

- David Benioff

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

- Dasha Zhukova

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

- Douglas Adams

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

- Dolly Parton

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

- Chuck Close

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

- Christopher Hitchens

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

- Brie Larson

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

- Bjork