If I Could Quotes

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

How it could have been different, how different decisions and events could have taken place. I'm not sure how it would have played out differently. I just didn't want it to play out the way it did.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

If I could play any superhero, I'd probably want to play Wonder Woman. She's pretty awesome.

If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found.

I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

I don't know if I could [do a TV show]. I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.

As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

God, I wish you could have been there.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

If I could say something to everyone on this planet, I'd tell them to follow their dreams.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom...but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"