All Quotes

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
‐‐ Aaliyah

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.
‐‐ Tinie Tempah

I don't want to act as if 'Harry Potter' wasn't the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it's also great personally that I'm starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
‐‐ Tina Turner

I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.
‐‐ Sonny Rollins

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

I don't want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

I don't want to be 25 again.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
‐‐ Holly Valance

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids.
‐‐ Torrey Smith

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
‐‐ Young Thug

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.
‐‐ Alex Lifeson

I don't want to be a bad role model.
‐‐ Kylie Jenner

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.
‐‐ Nneka

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I don't want to be a celebrity.
‐‐ Jerry Springer

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
‐‐ Adele

I don't want to be a dead hero.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.
‐‐ Sukarno

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
‐‐ Hannah Gadsby

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.
‐‐ Marty Feldman

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
‐‐ Zoe Wanamaker

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.
‐‐ Boy George

I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
‐‐ David Gilmour

I don't want to be a fusty old lady writer.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.
‐‐ Angela Ahrendts

I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
‐‐ Maddie Hasson

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to be a lobbyist. I want to provide strategic advice to companies. I said both of those things in the course of the interview, and I made clear this is a matter only for after I had become a private citizen and I was no longer a member of parliament.
‐‐ Geoff Hoon

I don't want to be a Major League coach.
‐‐ Barry Bonds

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
‐‐ Ruben Studdard

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.
‐‐ Russell Peters

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.
‐‐ John Carpenter

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
‐‐ Diane Ackerman

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
‐‐ Frank Lampard

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

I don't want to be a pretty boy.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

I don't want to be a quarterback that has all these stats but didn't win a lot of games.
‐‐ Jared Goff

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
‐‐ Cory Booker

I don't want to be a reality retro star.
‐‐ Bret Michaels

I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me.
‐‐ Sophie Monk

I don't want to be a senator.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
‐‐ Greta Garbo

I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
‐‐ Ray Romano

I don't want to be a star!
‐‐ Mathieu Amalric

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
‐‐ Paul Muni

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
‐‐ Gao Xingjian

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.
‐‐ Lacey Chabert

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
‐‐ Johan Cruyff

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

I don't want to be a victim.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
‐‐ Richard LaGravenese

I don't want to be able to see the audience.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.
‐‐ Gemma Arterton

I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I don't want to be all power and muscle.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much.
‐‐ James McAvoy

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.
‐‐ Teri Hatcher

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
‐‐ Indira Varma

I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
‐‐ Adam Levine

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
‐‐ Obie Trice

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
‐‐ Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.'
‐‐ Ryan McGinley

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all.
‐‐ Topher Grace

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.
‐‐ Topher Grace

I don't want to be an old dad.
‐‐ Shemar Moore

I don't want to be an oldies act, kind of dragging around on the road just for the money.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
‐‐ Kajol

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
‐‐ Roger Maris

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.
‐‐ John Malkovich

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.
‐‐ LeBron James

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.
‐‐ Niecy Nash

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.
‐‐ Rupert Everett