All Quotes

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
‐‐ George Strait

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
‐‐ Grant Heslov

I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.
‐‐ Mickey Cochrane

I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.
‐‐ Gene Kelly

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

I didn't want to be a 'Fortune' writer who was constrained in any way.
‐‐ Carol Loomis

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.
‐‐ Missy Elliott

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.
‐‐ Maxwell Caulfield

I didn't want to be a Hollywood actress who every so often does a Broadway play. I wanted to be a Broadway actress who every so often does a movie.
‐‐ Geraldine Page

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.
‐‐ Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
‐‐ Omar Sharif

I didn't want to be a solo Westlife - covers and ballads - and the reason I signed with Capitol Records was because they wanted me to write songs myself. It was pretty scary, but they put me in a studio in Nashville with some new songwriters, and the results were pretty good.
‐‐ Shane Filan

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman.
‐‐ Chris Milk

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
‐‐ Owain Yeoman

I didn't want to be an actor.
‐‐ Jim Caviezel

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
‐‐ Dante Ferretti

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
‐‐ Gabourey Sidibe

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
‐‐ Sofia Vergara

I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
‐‐ Yasmine Al Masri

I didn't want to be an actress. It wasn't a dream. I didn't have any dreams at all.
‐‐ Sandrine Bonnaire

I didn't want to be an actress when I was younger - not even when I was older, to tell you the truth.
‐‐ Rene Russo

I didn't want to be an artist.
‐‐ Carole King

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

I didn't want to be anyone else.
‐‐ Gordon Waller

I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

I didn't want to be Doctor Who in a 'Doctor Who' that I didn't like.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
‐‐ David McCallum

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.
‐‐ Judy Gold

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.
‐‐ Christopher Lee

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
‐‐ Dennis Rodman

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
‐‐ Jamie Chung

I didn't want to be known for punching out movie stars.
‐‐ Robert Maillet

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.
‐‐ Manoj Bhargava

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.
‐‐ Julian Schnabel

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?
‐‐ Tim Tebow

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
‐‐ John Berryman

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
‐‐ George Lopez

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

I didn't want to be one of those ex-pros, aye hanging around. I think that's wrong.
‐‐ Drew Busby

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
‐‐ Stephen Rea

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.
‐‐ Steven Wright

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
‐‐ Mickey Rooney

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
‐‐ Harry Lloyd

I didn't want to be that artist that is successful as a result of someone else. Not that that's wrong, but I felt like I had what it took. I really believed I could do it on my own, so I wanted to try, at least.
‐‐ Kiesza

I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
‐‐ John Mahoney

I didn't want to be the best at anything; I just wanted to blend in. And that was kind of my existence throughout my family experiences at home of just kind of blending in in the background through my other siblings, which was easy to do.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
‐‐ Neko Case

I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

I didn't want to be the lead guy. That's too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy's friend. I'd have days off, and still get a paycheck every week.
‐‐ Robert Sean Leonard

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.
‐‐ Kathleen Edwards

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
‐‐ Chris Robinson

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
‐‐ Barry Manilow

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins

I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.
‐‐ Florence Welch

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.
‐‐ Tina Majorino

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.
‐‐ Andra Day

I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?'
‐‐ Charles Kimbrough

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.
‐‐ Colbie Caillat

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.
‐‐ Robert Sean Leonard

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

I didn't want to commit to a TV show.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
‐‐ Tom Wesselmann

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.
‐‐ B. B. King

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.
‐‐ Bobby Orr

I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
‐‐ Marcus Luttrell

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.
‐‐ Fred Durst

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

I didn't want to do all of the mags, and we didn't get paid for those shoots - 'Hollyoaks' took the fee. But I couldn't say no to everything. I felt lucky to have the job I was doing, so I went along with it. And when I did 'Maxim,' I knew that stars like Eva Longoria had also been on the cover, so I was in good company.
‐‐ Roxanne McKee

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
‐‐ Linda Lavin

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.
‐‐ Eva Green

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It has taken off. We are the number one show in England on E! Who knew?
‐‐ Joan Rivers

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.
‐‐ Stephen Moyer

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
‐‐ Sally Kellerman

I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless.
‐‐ Paul Prudhomme

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
‐‐ Garry Marshall

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.
‐‐ Drew Daywalt

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
‐‐ Pras Michel

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican.
‐‐ Rodney Alexander

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz