Would Be Quotes

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take piano lessons. That's the way you really need to learn to play the piano."

I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

At forty-one, now I think it would be really cool to have an A&R guy say, "You know what? I don't think you've got this album sequenced right."

There's not too many shows with, you know, mid 20s male lead on it. And I thought that would be obviously something to go for The Listener.

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

If we had to accept the idea of an independent creator, the explanations given in [several Buddhist texts] which completely refutes the existence per se of all phenomena, would be negated.

There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.

If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage that would be brought on by same-gender marriage.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

How do you fall into a lion's den, that is my first question there, you think you would be extra carefull around a den of lions.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading authors who's work was composed in the languages I happen to have learned.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - I slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.