Change My Name Quotes

#1. If I change my name again y'all can have me certified as crazy. Alright?

Sean Combs

#2. Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

Michael Keaton

#3. School sucks. I'm dropping out and becoming a truck stop waitress. I think i'll change my name to Flo and get a really bad perm. Flo the truck stop waitress with a bad perm doesn't need high school. She lives off the knowledge of life.

Tammy Blackwell

#4. And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Elton John

#5. Before I die, I want to change my name to "Here," so that my tombstone could simply read, "Here lies." And then people who knew me could walk by, shake their head, and say, "Ain't that the truth.

Jarod Kintz

#6. I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

Morgan Brittany

#7. A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

Ioan Gruffudd

#8. A guy at ABC told me to change my name and get a nose job. I said 'You get a nose job.'

Mariska Hargitay

#9. I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.

Nicolas Cage

#10. When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?

Geena Rocero

#11. When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.

Bonnie McFarlane

#12. So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.

Herbie Hancock

#13. I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman.

Sophie Winkleman

#14. I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Mickey Rourke

#15. My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

Sissy Spacek

#16. Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair ... Change my name, just see what happens.

Larry David

#17. I was under the impression that werewolf packs were not meant to be run by committee."
"Yeah," I said. "But I dont want to be like all those other werewolves, you know?"
"Says the werewolf named Kitty."
"It's too late to change my name now," I grumbled.

Carrie Vaughn

#18. It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.

Rita Ora

#19. If I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else.

Jamie Foxx

#20. I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

James Weldon Johnson

#21. Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

Rod Taylor

#22. When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Mr. T

#23. David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

David Nicholls

#24. I just ... tell me something true about you."
"I own a pair of bell-bottoms," he confessed. "And an orange disco shirt."
"I don't believe you. You must wear it, then, next time I see you."
"I couldn't," the Gray Man said, amused. "I'd have to change my name to Mr. Orange.

Maggie Stiefvater

#25. When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

Laura Ricketts

#26. Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Madonna Ciccone

#27. When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

Joe Manganiello

#28. My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

Malachi Throne

#29. People asked me to change my name for [808s] ... I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

Kanye West

#30. I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

Karen Finerman

#31. I know I've been called the Louis Vuitton Don ... I've been called a lot of names ... Due to what happened, so severely, when the red shoes hit the runway, I was forced to change my name to Martin Louis Vuitton the King, Jr. Address me as such.

Kanye West

#32. The first thing Fontana did was get me to change my hair colour from light brown to red, and the songwriter Mitch Murray suggested I change my name from Pauline Matthews to Kiki Dee.

Kiki Dee

#33. Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Lethem

#34. During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Max Von Sydow

#35. Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.

Zach Braff

#36. I'm not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

#37. My name is Dorian Alexander, and this is a story about a girl who would change my life forever.

Carlos Dash

#38. Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#39. But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again

Mumford & Sons

#40. The main cause that I have attached my name to and am working diligently in is the issue of climate change.

Gloria Reuben

#41. When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

River Phoenix

#42. When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

William Wells Brown

#43. The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.

Imelda Marcos

#44. I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.

Dweezil Zappa

#45. if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow consciousness to change.

Gloria Steinem

#46. My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.

Julian Assange

#47. The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

Taylor Swift

#48. My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won't make anything change, but it's better than crying, it's better than screaming, it's better than listening to what they're telling me.

Nina LaCour

#49. I should change my job title to Retail Psychologist and get some impressive letter after my name.

Leanne Hall

#50. My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

Armin Van Buuren

#51. Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

Miguel De Cervantes

#52. When I'm playing, I feel like I have control over something. I feel like I have the power to change things. I feel more real out there than I do anywhere else. The court doesn't care what my name is or where I come from or where I'll be tomorrow. It lets me exist.

Nora Sakavic

#53. I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

Elizabeth Warren

#54. That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.

Gloria Steinem

#55. The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

Thom Yorke

#56. My last name should be "Why," because it is my destiny to question everything, including how to change my last name to one of the shortest questions and the question of all questions.

Jarod Kintz

#57. In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.

John Leguizamo

#58. One day you may make wake up and think your all alone.
One day you may feel this house is not my home.
One day you may find that things around you have change.
But one thing for sure God still knows your first and last name.

E.R. Turner

#59. I was blinking back freaked-out tears when Rephaim whispered my name. I looked over at him. He smiled and mouthed two small words: people change.

P.C. Cast

#60. As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.

Brad Wilkerson

#61. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

Tupac Shakur

#62. I hope to evoke emotion in others, help them escape for even just a little while into different worlds, different times and different thoughts. Whenever I'm able to lend my name to worthy causes and try and change this world for the better I feel like my work is a success.

James Preston Rogers

#63. I'll never change the name of the Redskins. You have my word on that.

Daniel Snyder

#64. Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.

James Roday

#65. Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Wordsworth

#66. To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.

Carl Jung

#67. When I marry my name will not change.

Kim Clijsters

#68. I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.

Nathan Lane

#69. I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

LL Cool J

#70. How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don't care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now."
"His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?" Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

Maggie Stiefvater