Top 465 If I Could Quotes

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I don’t know if I could play ‘intimidating’ in a way that’s physically a tough type, and it feels like since ‘Mindhunter’ came out, auditions have been much more geared toward more intelligent characters. And that’s the kind of stuff I like to play.

If I could change one thing about myself I’d be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

If I could I would fight every week.

I was a not-big-enough, not-fast-enough football player who wanted a little bit of an edge on the field. I figured my own sweat, if I could get that off my body, and more importantly, the weight that stood behind it, that would help.

It’s possible I’m a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn’t have any audience at all. Ultimately, I’m my audience. I’m writing stories for myself. I don’t have kids of my own, and I don’t hang around kids all that much. Maybe that puts me at a disadvantage.

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn’t hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.

‘Boycott caused all the trouble,’ they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

I think I used comedy as a mechanism: if I could make the other kids laugh, I wouldn’t get beaten up or teased as much.

I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low – but you can’t just shoot for four hours every day.

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I’d probably say: ‘Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.’

After university, I set out to see if I could make a career in music. It was a tough journey at first, but by the time I was 23 I’d been signed by A&M Records.

I’d watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I’m bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

Many men say: ‘If I could only see an angel, if I could only hear an angel proclaim something, that would cause me to be faithful all the days of my life!’

Think about what you’re passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I’d tell the younger me that there’s a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

I am just so grateful for every single day, and if I could just not think past today, I would be living the life that I think God meant me to live.

I said I wanted to be the best in the world. I thought if I could make it, I would be able to change my future, to change my destiny. I would push myself to the limits. I would do 70 laps and barely eat.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I’ve been so blessed I’d like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

If I could do one thing over I’d have been nicer to my parents.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I’d go, ‘Well, war isn’t that terrible.’

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I’ve met during my career. That’s where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It’s been 15 years.

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 live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can’t turn your head without seeing something amazing.

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’

I was wondering if I could love another child as much as I love my son. And what I realized, within hours of my daughter being born, not only do I love her just as much if not more.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don’t need recreation.

If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn’t the man I am now.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it – I do love a good swirl in a fog.

For three months I was brain damaged. I couldn’t think like before and I was so scared. I didn’t know if I could go on living like that. But it helped that the doctors told me I’d get better and your brain is amazing. It can recover.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But, like, I could totally date the rest of the band as one. I mean, if I could date all of them at one time, that’d be, like, ideal. They seem pretty close, but who knows? Maybe not that close.

If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I’d love that.

‘The Conversation’ was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine – a KEM editing machine. I’ve been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.

My dad has definitely sacrificed a lot for me, and I don’t know if I could do it if I was in his shoes. Leaving your life behind and chasing this dream because your kid is passionate about this sport.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

If I could read it, I could play it.

I wouldn’t go so far as to make ‘You Don’t Own Me’ a tango or ‘It’s My Party’ a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I’m really enjoying singing them.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children’s literature, which I’ve always had, and the feeling that I’d just have a go and see if I could do it.

Probably about 10 years ago or so I told my grandmother that I always wanted to make a record of hymns if I could ever make a career of all of this. She kind of held me to it. She passed away in 1999. I just never forgot it.

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

If I could go back in time and see anyone perform, it would have to be Bob Marley.

It is a good life. I would do it all over in a minute if I could.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not against makeup. If I could manage looking like ‘me’ in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I’d sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.