All Quotes

I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody... to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.
‐‐ Serinda Swan

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
‐‐ Robin Trower

I didn't want to get back into the whole industry. I left overworked, overwhelmed, and not having any control over my life. I was bulimic and needed to heal.
‐‐ Cheryl James

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.
‐‐ Amanda Harlech

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
‐‐ Nafisa Joseph

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
‐‐ Elliot Cowan

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone

I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.
‐‐ Eleanor Mondale

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wilson

I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'
‐‐ Anna Chlumsky

I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

I didn't want to go get a job or get a degree in business or marketing, or whatever all my friends were getting degrees in.
‐‐ James Marsden

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

I didn't want to go on the DL. I want to keep pitching and competing. They decided it's better for me to take some time off and that's what we're going to do.
‐‐ Johan Santana

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
‐‐ Kid Rock

I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.
‐‐ Dylan Penn

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.
‐‐ Jenna Fischer

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.
‐‐ Brad Holland

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
‐‐ Aidan Gillen

I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.
‐‐ Mos Def

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.
‐‐ Tracy Austin

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
‐‐ Gary Speed

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

I didn't want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.
‐‐ Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.
‐‐ Vincent Gallo

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
‐‐ Shaun White

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.
‐‐ Linda Evans

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling.
‐‐ Georgia Jagger

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
‐‐ Tim McGraw

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
‐‐ Kanye West

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.
‐‐ Aimee Mann

I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.
‐‐ Heath Ledger

I didn't want to raise my kids in this weird, sycophantic society. If you have celebrity parents, it's not a good recipe for the kids, or anyone at any age.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
‐‐ Etel Adnan

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.
‐‐ Miyavi