I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
‐‐ Lena Horne
I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.
‐‐ Matt Groening
I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
‐‐ R. Lee Ermey
I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
‐‐ Kimberly Elise
I don't have to be in politics.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez
I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
‐‐ Maisie Williams
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes
I don't have to be what you want me to be.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali
I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.
‐‐ Mel Gibson
I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.
‐‐ DMX
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
‐‐ Brene Brown
I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
‐‐ Bil Keane
I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.
‐‐ Elton John
I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.
‐‐ Ron Suskind
I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.
‐‐ Arizona Muse
I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
‐‐ Dane Cook
I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon
I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.
‐‐ Nicki Minaj
I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.
‐‐ Edmund White
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith
I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
‐‐ Geoffrey S. Fletcher
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch
I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway
I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.
‐‐ LaDainian Tomlinson
I don't have to hang around a pub, really, to get an idea. I usually visit it once, get the layout, the atmosphere, the feel of it.
‐‐ Martha Grimes
I don't have to have a child come from my womb to have a connection. Children that are already born are beautiful to me. I can definitely be a mother to them.
‐‐ Tyra Banks
I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
‐‐ Jason Ritter
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
‐‐ Joseph Campbell
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
‐‐ Abbey Lincoln
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
‐‐ Jodi Picoult
I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.
‐‐ Tim Tebow
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
‐‐ Fred Allen
I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
‐‐ Bill Parcells
I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie
I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!
‐‐ Jason Statham
I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
‐‐ Billy Corgan
I don't have to play football.
‐‐ Terrell Owens
I don't have to prove anything.
‐‐ Lil Wayne
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
‐‐ Daniel Berrigan
I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
‐‐ Chris Kyle
I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
‐‐ Tarsem Singh
I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith
I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.
‐‐ Ice T
I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.
‐‐ Ruben Santiago-Hudson
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
‐‐ Sargent Shriver
I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.
‐‐ Trent Reznor
I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
‐‐ Billy Graham
I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.
‐‐ Cristiano Ronaldo
I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
‐‐ Salman Khan
I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
‐‐ Diana Ross
I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medication.
‐‐ Della Reese