Because I Quotes

#1. Why does this feel so right?" I murmured past the tightness in my throat.
"Why do you keep fighting this feeling?"
"Because I'm not supposed to want this."
His smile returned, slowly curving his lips up. "But you do anyway.

Melissa Darnell

#2. I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV.

Jeremy London

#3. He nodded. I no longer focus on meeting their expectations because I am too focused on outdoing hers.

Sarah MacLean

#4. Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

Esha Gupta

#6. I was ready to get the hell off the mountain, but somehow that offered no satisfaction. I had gotten in too deep. I would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about.

Haruki Murakami

#7. It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.

James McCartney

#8. One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?' ... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.

Jon Fitch

#9. I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

Rickie Lee Jones

#10. I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

Beth Orton

#11. I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence ... luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged.

Sylvia Plath

#12. Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

John Hench

#13. I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.

Josh Lawson

#14. I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.

Meaghan Rath

#15. Coming from Morocco was just different, man. It's a third-world country, and you are trying to make it happen. That's all it is. I didn't have any problem hooking up with the black kids because I'm from North Africa. And as far as Latinos, we are all the same.

French Montana

#16. I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

Shirley Maclaine

#17. Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

Tupac Shakur

#18. I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

Sam Keen

#19. Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

Link Wray

#20. I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

Terry Crews

#21. I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.

Kirsten Dunst

#22. I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Francis Ford Coppola

#23. Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars ... If I had 90 billion dollars, I wouldn't have it for long because I would just dream of all the crazy stuff I could do with it. This guy, 90 billion dollars. He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.

Louis C.K.

#24. I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

David Gest

#25. The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me, you know?

Kelsea Ballerini

#26. Chinese people questioned my yellowness because I was born in America. Then white people questioned my identity as an American because I was yellow.

Eddie Huang

#27. But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.

Melina Marchetta

#28. Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Ridley Scott

#29. I love you, not because you are perfect, but because I created a place for you in my heart.

Debasish Mridha

#30. ...I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...

Judith McNaught

#31. I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

Martha Plimpton

#32. My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Clint Eastwood

#33. I'd never forget Sunny! Never in a million years! Not that I will live that long! Particularly because I don't exercise very much! But I don't like exercising, so it's worth it!

Lemony Snicket

#34. Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

Bernard Cornwell

#35. Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.

Vladimir Potanin

#36. I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

Rachel McAdams

#37. People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

Terrell Owens

#38. The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

Terri Windling

#39. I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Sherman Alexie

#40. I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

Woody Allen

#41. I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.

Crystal Woods

#42. I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.

Jane Pauley

#43. Now,
Because I put you in the past,
My life is like:
A path paved,
Fit for your feet.
Now other women walk on it;
And not one of them fits.
Walking crooked, on a path that's straight.
I watch them.
They don't even have your gait.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#44. For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.

Aaron Lazar

#45. These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

Jack Vance

#46. I am optimistic because I will use power of love to find the miracles of life.

Debasish Mridha

#47. I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her.

Michael Schiavo

#48. Because I really did want to trust him. I really did want to love him. He really wanted me to love him too.

Laurelin Paige

#49. I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#50. I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.

Amy Tan

#51. Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.

Nicholas Haslam

#52. I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

Charlie Kaufman

#53. Too often my solution is to let something die because I can't keep it alive, when God's solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#54. I'm wary of the word glam because I think that became the all-inclusive term with for any bloke with lipstick on, which is fine, you know, and that's what it is when it comes down to the public level.

David Bowie

#55. I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.

Jane Lynch

#56. For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.

Paul Butcher

#57. I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

David Hilbert

#58. I'm not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.

Tim Cook

#59. All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Robert Redford

#60. I live in a peaceful world because I choose to think loving and peaceful thoughts.

Louise Hay

#61. I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

Katy Perry

#62. Before I came here, I had people telling me what a tough place New York is, how other players came here and struggled. But I never let that bother me. I came here because I want to win.

CC Sabathia

#63. I love the one that can't be loved. Because I just didn't have the luck to love the one that could be loved.

Leydi Morfa

#64. The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

Jon Brion

#65. I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

Patricia Richardson

#66. Is this what it means to die? Lucas thought. Because I'm not scared of it anymore. Not if it means I finally get this close to you.

Claudia Gray

#67. I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.

Cody Johnson

#68. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

Vincent Kartheiser

#69. I was a child when I first saw 'Vertigo,' and it was very disturbing because I didn't really understand what was going on.

Allen Coulter

#70. 'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'

Marlon Wayans

#71. I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.

Bob Weir

#72. I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#73. I write because I suck at talking. -Kelley Powell

Kelley Powell

#74. I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

#75. The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

Ernest Borgnine

#76. I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#77. You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Jason Aldean

#78. I don't particularly want to think of your funeral because I'd much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.

Agatha Christie

#79. It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time ...

Brian O'Driscoll

#80. Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

Constance Wu

#81. When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

Scott Baio

#82. I want you hear because I can't bear it when you're not. I want you here because I want you with me - always.

Laurelin Paige

#83. If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

C.S. Lewis

#84. Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

Sandra Cisneros

#85. I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.

King Tuff

#86. I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

Jennifer Hudson

#87. Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

Orla Brady

#88. Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

Debasish Mridha

#89. 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

Barry Manilow

#90. I'm very proud of my skin and my face, and I have no problem not wearing makeup. I don't wear makeup because I feel like I need to cover myself up or because I don't feel confident. I wear makeup because it's fun; it's like painting on my face.

Zendaya

#91. I am not a fool. This is why Olga was so distraught - because I teetered the line, and most times my left foot was a paperweight clinging to hell.

Rebekah Armusik

#92. When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

Linda Hunt

#93. Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

Kim Cattrall

#94. I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.

Halle Berry

#95. Why are you here?"

Silence. Then the boy said slowly, "Because I admire you.

Dorothy Dunnett

#96. When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

Didier Drogba

#97. I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.

Francesca Annis

#98. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.

Max Schneider

#99. I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.

Maisie Williams

#100. I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

Nobuyoshi Araki