All Quotes

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
‐‐ Paddy Considine

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.
‐‐ Nina Bawden

I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
‐‐ Natalie Cole

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

I would hate to meet myself at 15.
‐‐ John Oliver

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.
‐‐ Alex Morrison

I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
‐‐ Ian Frazier

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.
‐‐ Mike Mills

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
‐‐ Nick Cave

I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.
‐‐ Marian Seldes

I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.
‐‐ Tsai Ing-wen

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
‐‐ Louis MacNeice

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
‐‐ Goodman Ace

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel

I would have been a disastrous soldier.
‐‐ Max Hastings

I would have been a geologist.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
‐‐ Jackie Stewart

I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
‐‐ Jodie Whittaker

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.
‐‐ Josh Young

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
‐‐ Gary Neville

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
‐‐ Rick Springfield

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
‐‐ Glen Campbell

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
‐‐ Oliver Cromwell

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
‐‐ Zosia Mamet

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.
‐‐ Deirdre O'Kane

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
‐‐ Zach Galifianakis

I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
‐‐ Duane Chapman

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
‐‐ Jane Austen

I would have felt ashamed if I had not been part of the resistance and part of fighting back against the forces of the state.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.
‐‐ Julianna Margulies

I would have had fun doing just about anything.
‐‐ Clancy Brown

I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.
‐‐ Gordon Gould

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.
‐‐ Asghar Farhadi

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.
‐‐ Jerry Only

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
‐‐ Mark Goddard

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

I would have liked the old days.
‐‐ David Wells