I'd rather write a check than make myself look ridiculous.
‐‐ Rocky Wirtz
I'd rather write about polar bears than people.
‐‐ Mary Oliver
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
‐‐ Donna Tartt
I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.
‐‐ Graham Kennedy
I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
‐‐ Billy Corgan
I'd read a lot of books where the girls are in awe of the supernatural male, so I thought it was time to write about an awesome and super-powerful female who is also quite vulnerable and naive about life on earth.
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto
I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'
‐‐ Uzo Aduba
I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.
‐‐ David Baldacci
I'd read about Alexander Imich, a Polish-born 'psychic researcher,' in 'The New York Times' not long after he'd turned 111 and had been declared the oldest man on earth.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti
I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'
‐‐ Edward Ruscha
I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
‐‐ Victor LaValle
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
‐‐ Ian Frazier
I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.
‐‐ Mark Billingham
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
‐‐ Andrew Pyper
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
‐‐ Denise Mina
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
‐‐ Robert Pattinson
I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
‐‐ John Wayne
I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
‐‐ Taya Kyle
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford
I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.
‐‐ Jeanne Tripplehorn
I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
‐‐ Yves Saint Laurent
I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.
‐‐ Minnie Driver
I'd really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good guys.
‐‐ Cayden Boyd
I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.
‐‐ David Morrissey
I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon
I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle.
‐‐ Sean Pertwee
I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.
‐‐ Scott Bakula
I'd really like to shave my hair off and get a bit more hard-edged.
‐‐ Richard Madden
I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.
‐‐ Katherine Helmond
I'd really like to visit India and South America. I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I've got a feeling it will also be good for one's soul and spirit. And I'd love to go backpacking around South America at some point. I did that in Australia when I was younger, and the camaraderie was great fun.
‐‐ Emilia Fox
I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
‐‐ Kat Graham
I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee
I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.
‐‐ Franz Drameh
I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
‐‐ Aarti Mann
I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike
I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
‐‐ David Keith
I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun
I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.
‐‐ Jane Jensen
I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
‐‐ Estelle
I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.
‐‐ Curtis Joseph
I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.
‐‐ Lorde
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
‐‐ Larry Niven
I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.
‐‐ Julie London
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.
‐‐ John Hawkes
I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
‐‐ Adam Pally