I'm not actively seeking stardom. I just go to auditions…

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

— Israel Adesanya

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

— Evangeline Lilly

As actors we have these things that they call eco-casting, where you don't even go to an office and meet with a human being,…

— Simone Missick

“We're always lucky," I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock…

— Ernest Hemingway

I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind…

— Diego Klattenhoff

I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.

— Jason Akermanis

“The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.”

— Markus Zusak

Knock on wood is a saying for good luck. I think that started when someone went to someone's door to see if someone was…

— Mitch Hedberg

I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never…

— Jennifer Carpenter

Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My…

— Chloe Kim

I have to knock on wood because any minute now the wicked witch will come in and ruin it all with a poisoned apple.

— Katherine Heigl

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

— Melissa Etheridge

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

— Courtney Love

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

— Rachael Taylor

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.

— Gordon Strachan