All Quotes

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
‐‐ Lloyd Blankfein

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
‐‐ Claire Cameron

I would have liked to come back in '300'; they did an origins film of '300' just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.
‐‐ Robert Maillet

I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.
‐‐ David Suchet

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.
‐‐ Ron Moody

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.
‐‐ Robert Kazinsky

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.
‐‐ Charles Dance

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.
‐‐ Nancy Grace

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.
‐‐ Cesar Pelli

I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
‐‐ Ashley Greene

I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.
‐‐ Rene Russo

I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
‐‐ Alex Trebek

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.
‐‐ Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

I would have loved to have been in 'Bottle Rocket' to take over Owen Wilson's character Dignan, because he's just awesome and amazing. I would have loved to have been in 'The Darjeeling Limited' maybe. I think that would have been a good one to be in.
‐‐ Tony Revolori

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
‐‐ Richard O'Brien

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.
‐‐ Cilla Black

I would have loved to have gone into diag
‐‐ Scarlett Johansson

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.
‐‐ Scarlett Johansson

I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
‐‐ Natalie Morales

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

I would have loved to have met Roger Federer.
‐‐ Katie Taylor

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
‐‐ Jeremy Northam

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.
‐‐ John Elway

I would have loved to paint Eartha Kitt, but she's no longer here. I'm so glad I had the chance to meet her.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas

I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.
‐‐ Blake Mycoskie

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

I would have never thought that I'd be doing Chanel.
‐‐ Alice Dellal

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie.
‐‐ Judy Greer

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
‐‐ Camille Claudel

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.
‐‐ Troy Donahue

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
‐‐ Ralph Stanley

I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
‐‐ Ron White

I would have really loved to have gone on a hiatus to write for Daredevil.
‐‐ Christopher McCulloch

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
‐‐ Grace Jones

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
‐‐ Tony Randall

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
‐‐ Karl Rove