Would Quotes · Page 124

Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.

— James D'arcy

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because…

— Karen Russell

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were…

— Matthew Morrison

I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an…

— Nina Conti

I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of…

— Meaghan Rath

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the…

— Damian Loeb

I don't regret doing 'The Living Daylights'. If I hadn't done Bond, I wouldn't have been in America doing my series, and…

— Maryam D'Abo

I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would…

— Ori Gersht

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended…

— Michelle Yeoh

Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love…

— Jennifer Nettles

My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best…

— Giorgio Moroder

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is -…

— Christian Camargo

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance,…

— Brian Blessed

I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And…

— Rita Rudner

Can you imagine watching 'All in the Family' and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it's happening?…

— Jim Rash

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a…

— Carine Roitfeld

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton M. Christensen

I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice,…

— Jennifer Stone

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story…

— Russell Smith

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much…

— Ken Norton

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my…

— Jayson Blair

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

— Sergey Brin

I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.

— Lou Barlow

I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about…

— Zach Braff

In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!

— Tisha Campbell-Martin

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want…

— Katherine Parkinson

I've been told by many people that if I had a Twitter account, I would be making five hundred thousand dollars more…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

— Martin Lawrence

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

— John Roberts

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was…

— Noam Chomsky

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great…

— Derek Hough

I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

— Garik Israelian

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

— Ed Stoppard

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of…

— David Dinkins

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even…

— Harlan Coben

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

— Charles Dance

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing…

— Douglas Wilder

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

— Kelli White

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in…

— Karin Slaughter