All Quotes

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.
‐‐ Paullina Simons

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.
‐‐ Catherine Martin

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.
‐‐ Kirk Kerkorian

I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.
‐‐ Frankie Avalon

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
‐‐ Phyllis A. Whitney

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
‐‐ Frederic Chopin

I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.
‐‐ Chris Colfer

I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.
‐‐ Eva Longoria

I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.
‐‐ Tom Paulin

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
‐‐ Gwen Stefani

I wish I could write 'Taxi Driver,' or 'Blue Velvet,' something brave, audacious, dramatic and dark. I don't know if I have the darkness in my own soul to be able to tap into it, unfortunately.
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

I wish I'd become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs - like baking - while dancing part-time, and didn't commit until I was 29.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.
‐‐ Roseanne Barr

I wish I'd gone to a small liberal-arts college where I'd have read the great books instead of a large university where I majored in early-childhood education.
‐‐ Judy Blume

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
‐‐ Richie Ashburn

I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'
‐‐ Jennifer Ehle

I wish I'd played Coriolanus.
‐‐ Roger Rees

I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.
‐‐ Jai Courtney

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.
‐‐ Margaret Wise Brown

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.
‐‐ Christine Baranski

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
‐‐ Ozzy Osbourne

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
‐‐ Bob Seger

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.
‐‐ James Corden

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.
‐‐ Petra Haden

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.
‐‐ Monica Ali

I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.
‐‐ Katherine Jenkins

I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

I wish I had a funny story.
‐‐ Leslie Easterbrook

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
‐‐ Chely Wright

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

I wish I had a little more joy of cooking - because mostly I have anxiety of cooking. I'm so proud when things come out well.
‐‐ Maura Tierney

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.
‐‐ Kristen Wiig

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.
‐‐ Tommy Shaw

I wish I had a really cool, esoteric answer, but what the process is to me is going onstage night after night after night after night until I get a new hour. And then once that hour is solidified and recorded, I move on.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
‐‐ Joshua Lederberg

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
‐‐ Joan Rivers