All Quotes

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.
‐‐ Nick Swardson

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.
‐‐ Jon Glaser

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
‐‐ Captain Beefheart

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
‐‐ B. B. King

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
‐‐ Kesha

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
‐‐ Richard Branson

If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
‐‐ Daniel Suarez

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.
‐‐ Christopher Paolini

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
‐‐ Tina Fey

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
‐‐ Otis Redding

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
‐‐ Judith Light

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
‐‐ Arthur Lydiard

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
‐‐ Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
‐‐ Paul Harding

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.
‐‐ Marcel Hirscher

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
‐‐ Alfonso Ribeiro

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
‐‐ Nicole Sullivan

If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
‐‐ Bill Nunn

If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
‐‐ James Carville

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
‐‐ Chris Evans

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
‐‐ Mark Burnett

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
‐‐ Sidney Lanier

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

If you want to be happy, be.
‐‐ Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
‐‐ Mary Higgins Clark

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

If you want to be happy, make others happy!
‐‐ Dada Vaswani

If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.
‐‐ Nick Cannon

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.
‐‐ Jerry Weintraub

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.
‐‐ Eli Yishai

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.
‐‐ Raphael Saadiq

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
‐‐ Marge Piercy

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
‐‐ Ovid

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.
‐‐ Richard Branson

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
‐‐ Stephen Malkmus

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
‐‐ Bernard Meltzer

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
‐‐ Jesus Christ

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.
‐‐ Bob Harper