All Quotes

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
‐‐ Yao Ming

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.
‐‐ Suze Orman

If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
‐‐ Jean Nidetch

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
‐‐ Jon Katz

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.
‐‐ Graham Moore

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.
‐‐ Mike deGruy

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
‐‐ Jerome Lawrence

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
‐‐ Richard Burton

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
‐‐ Lewis Black

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.
‐‐ Paula Malcomson

If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
‐‐ Valorie Curry

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
‐‐ J. R. Martinez

If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
‐‐ Brett Hull

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.
‐‐ David Oyelowo

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
‐‐ Barbara Jordan

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
‐‐ Dave Sitek

If you're going to retire, retire early.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
‐‐ Barry Diller

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.
‐‐ Glen Mazzara

If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp.
‐‐ Alison Sweeney

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.
‐‐ James Sinegal

If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.
‐‐ April Bowlby

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
‐‐ Victoria Strauss

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
‐‐ Barry Diller

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
‐‐ Hyman Rickover

If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
‐‐ Beth Gutcheon

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.
‐‐ Scott Rudin

If you're going to start a company, it's not going to be in the millions of dollars, but it's going to be something - for a lot of these kids - out of the trunk of their car, the same way that I did.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?
‐‐ Tom Douglas

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.
‐‐ Gene Krupa

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
‐‐ Dan Gable

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
‐‐ Gracia Martore

If you're going to support a football team, do it 100 per cent.
‐‐ Sean Bean

If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
‐‐ Harland Williams

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.
‐‐ Kay Panabaker