Would Be Quotes

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.

Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out.

I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.