All Quotes

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
‐‐ Ben Macintyre

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
‐‐ Joe Haldeman

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
‐‐ Daisy Fuentes

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
‐‐ Dorothy Allison

I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
‐‐ Aaron Sorkin

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
‐‐ Pam Ferris

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.
‐‐ Clyde Edgerton

I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.
‐‐ Cheryl Mills

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.
‐‐ Samantha Power

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.
‐‐ Rich Mullins

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
‐‐ Nanette Lepore

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
‐‐ Kara Hayward

I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.
‐‐ Michael Patrick King

I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
‐‐ Dana Delany

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
‐‐ Dave Rowntree

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

I think I would play Batman. I love Batman.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
‐‐ Jens Stoltenberg

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me.
‐‐ Shelley Conn

I think I would've been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it's all about longevity.
‐‐ Tuppence Middleton

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
‐‐ Ann Beattie

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
‐‐ Philip Roth

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.
‐‐ Elle King

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.
‐‐ Liz Phair

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
‐‐ Mary Balogh

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
‐‐ Shawn Ashmore

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
‐‐ Katherine Paterson

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
‐‐ Zac Efron

I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.
‐‐ Kim Swift

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.
‐‐ Trieste Kelly Dunn

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
‐‐ Billy Collins

I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.
‐‐ Jhene Aiko

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
‐‐ Peter Dinklage