All Quotes

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
‐‐ Kim Alexis

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.
‐‐ Ariel Rechtshaid

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
‐‐ Colin Firth

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
‐‐ Elizabeth I

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
‐‐ Iman

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night.
‐‐ Chord Overstreet

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.
‐‐ Leon Jaworski

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
‐‐ Boy George

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
‐‐ Lord Byron

I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.
‐‐ Kristen Wiig

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
‐‐ Tupac Shakur

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
‐‐ Jennifer O'Neill

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.
‐‐ Joseph Pulitzer

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.
‐‐ Keith Thibodeaux

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve

I would rather just do the things I want to do.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
‐‐ Garry Wills

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
‐‐ Albert Camus

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
‐‐ Lana Turner

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.
‐‐ Farrah Fawcett

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.
‐‐ Sophocles

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
‐‐ Patrice Leconte

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
‐‐ Phaedrus

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
‐‐ Rand Paul

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
‐‐ Christopher Plummer

I would rather not work than be a neurotic mess.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.
‐‐ Charles Grodin

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
‐‐ Jack Lemmon

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.'
‐‐ Jonathan Jackson

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.
‐‐ Fredrik Bajer

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
‐‐ Douglas Wood

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

I would rather start a family than finish one.
‐‐ Don Marquis

I would rather stop too soon than too late.
‐‐ Luc Besson

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
‐‐ Kristy Swanson

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
‐‐ Grover Cleveland

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
‐‐ Stanley Baldwin

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
‐‐ Karl G. Maeser