Would Be Quotes

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

Liberals don't have to emerge from the hot tub and start attending NASCAR races or - God forbid - church, but it would be nice if they'd stop lying all the time.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

The fans, I loved them. My mother would be in the gallery, I would look right at my mother and not remember.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Thou shalt have one God only: who Would be at the expense of two?