All Quotes

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.
‐‐ Dev Anand

If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
‐‐ Eric Church

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.
‐‐ Chely Wright

If I wanted to be any woman in the world, it would not be Bethenny Frankel.
‐‐ Johnny Weir

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
‐‐ David Gest

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.
‐‐ Richard Elman

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
‐‐ Andrew Young

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.
‐‐ Emily Rios

If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.
‐‐ Louis Bonaparte

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.
‐‐ Tobey Maguire

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
‐‐ Daniel Gilbert

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.
‐‐ Avicii

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.
‐‐ Neill Blomkamp

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
‐‐ John Oliver

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
‐‐ Portia de Rossi

If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
‐‐ Hunter Tylo

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
‐‐ Natasha Lyonne

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
‐‐ Cornelia Funke

If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.
‐‐ Mark Shand

If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it would be a burden because it wouldn't be natural to me to be dealing in music when my natural ability is in woodwork or whatever. But because my natural talent is also music, it kind of makes it much easier.
‐‐ Stephen Marley

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.
‐‐ John Turturro

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
‐‐ Alex Kapranos

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.
‐‐ Christian Lacroix

If I was a father, and my son told me he wanted to go out and be a publisher, I'd say, 'Go get a job.'
‐‐ Richard Chizmar

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.
‐‐ Heather Mills

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
‐‐ Nigel Farage

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.
‐‐ David Coverdale

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.
‐‐ Moby

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik