Would Be Quotes

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions.

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved

If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

I have a ships bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

The Second Amendment was designed explicitly to protect weapons that would be useful in a military context.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.