Top 100 Don't Want To Do Anything Quotes
#1. If you want to avoid making mistakes don't do anything
Thabiso Monkoe
#2. I can't do anything about the fact
that our dreams don't align. And since
I do love you, I want you to live yours.
Penny Reid
#3. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
#4. When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#5. I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy
#7. I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.
Sharon Tate
#8. I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#10. I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
Ray Bradbury
#11. Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#12. I think it's such a risky thing doing interviews. I try to limit the amount of interviews that I do because no one is that interesting especially when you're not really saying anything. And I don't particularly want to be an character in society or whatever.
Robert Pattinson
#13. I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
Michael Caine
#14. I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.
Katherine Jenkins
#15. All I'm saying, Isaiah, is I want you to to think about it. You don't owe her anything." "Yes, I do. We all owe her. Me especially. It's more difficult to distinguish the good from the bad every day- and she needs people that she can trust. Because the world is full of people she can't.
Nathan Edmondson
#16. Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.
Naomie Harris
#17. Don't ever do anything for a man you don't want to do for you.
Amy Andrews
#18. If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.
Alice Cooper
#19. I'd love to do anything that is outside of my comfort zone, that I've never done before. Whenever I think about something that I want to take on, I like it if it makes me a bit nervous, or makes me feel like I don't know exactly that I can pull it off.
Brit Marling
#20. 1. Ask: "Do you want to talk about how you're feeling?" 2. Don't ask if there's anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it's not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don't have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough. The
Will Schwalbe
#21. Why? It doesn't hurt you or anything. I told you I won't bother you if you don't want me to. And if you do, well, I'm all about that. So what's it matter if I just love you from afar?" I didn't entirely know. "Because . . . because you can't!
Richelle Mead
#22. You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
#23. So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
Jennifer Pahlka
#24. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru
Haruki Murakami
#25. After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.
Madeleine Albright
#26. I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
Madhuri Dixit
#27. I can't bear to look at it. Well I can, I do, I want to, I don't want to, I try not to. Every day I tell myself not to look, and every day I look. I can't help myself, even though there is nothing I want to see there, even though anything I do see will hurt me.
Paula Hawkins
#28. Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.
Joe Montana
#29. Above all else, trust that you don't have to control your partner, because your partner, given the freedom to do anything, will want to cherish and support you. And always, always move in the direction of greatest courage, toward the best possible version of yourself. Strong,
Franklin Veaux
#30. Write someone a love letter, not because you want them to love you...., do it because you love them. Don't want anything from anyone.
circa. 2013
Vincent Lynch
#31. You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.
Deryck Whibley
#32. I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.
Sarah Hay
#33. I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
Caitlyn Jenner
#34. I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.
Charles Grodin
#35. On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#36. When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
Michael Moore
#38. It's a real shame. I like how people act on holidays. Everyone just seems ... I don't know
lighter, maybe. Like they're allowed to have fun all day long and eat anything they want and do silly things, and no one cares because, hey, it's a holiday, so why not?
John Corey Whaley
#39. I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
Paris Hilton
#40. know very well that I don't want to do anything: to do something is to create existence - and there's quite enough existence as it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.
Ang Lee
#42. My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman
#43. When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Barack Obama
#44. I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#45. I won't do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don't want to lose to a crazed lunatic.
Nicole Kiefer
#46. I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon
#47. Men are attracted to flawed women too of course, but their illusion is that they can fix them. Women don't want to fix anything. They just want to be entertained. The truth about women is you can do anything to them except bore them.
Cormac McCarthy
#48. I'm in love with you and you don't want anything to do with me so I think we can make this work: a love story.
Melissa Broder
#49. There's not a lot to do when you don't want to do anything.
Noelle Blanche
#50. Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, you don't know how to dance, do you, Josephine? I didn't know how to dance. I didn't want anything to do with his biscuit.
Ruta Sepetys
#51. Do the things that you always wanted to, without me there to hold you back, don't think just do, more than anything I want to see you go, take a glorious bite out of the whole world
Snow Patrol
#52. I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.
Zac Efron
#53. Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
Rainn Wilson
#54. I don't stand a chance When you look at me that way I'll do anything you want me to Anything for you And I'll shout it for the whole world to know Oh, honey, that's what you do to me And I don't mind at all
Emma Chase
#55. When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'
Dick Van Dyke
#56. Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.
Rod Serling
#57. I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
Vivienne Westwood
#58. If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.
Ariana Grande
#59. I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.
Michael Strahan
#60. I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.
Chen Guangbiao
#61. I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.
Misty Copeland
#62. because if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them. He just doesn't want me badly enough.
Paula Hawkins
#63. With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.
Charles Kelley
#64. If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.
Neal Shusterman
#65. I don't want to become like him. Become one of those people who believe it's okay to do anything to anyone if it achieves the 'right' end.
Lisa M. Lilly
#66. There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.
Rupert Friend
#67. As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.
Marla Gibbs
#68. Garrick was panting when he replied, "You're not forcing me to do anything. I just want you to be sure. You can say stop at anytime." His lips pulled wide. "You don't need to make up a new pet.
Cora Carmack
#69. Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.
Moe Norman
#70. I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.
Lucas Neff
#71. I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.
Rivers Cuomo
#72. What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?
Paul Feig
#73. I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.
Creed Bratton
#74. People who don't want to do anything that doesn't come to them immediately rarely learn anything worthwhile
Edward Burke
#75. If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it.
Paulo Coelho
#76. He's going to want an explanation," I say.
"An explanation? You don't owe him anything. If you don't want to talk to him, don't. If you want to yell at him, do. If you want to slash his tires - "
"Ginnie."
"I was going to say don't. Or do. Whatever helps.
Lindsey Leavitt
#77. When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.
Rick Perlstein
#78. We don't want any relationship! we just need someone who listen us, who is ready to do anything for us without saying no. In short we just need one slave!
Sid
#79. I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.
Shilpa Shetty
#80. I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
Danica Patrick
#81. When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.
Dan Bejar
#82. I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.
Dylan Moran
#83. I want to challenge myself and do new things.
I don't know what it's like to be my true self. But it's more interesting that way.
Even if you don't know yourself?
If you don't know it means you can become anything you want to be, right?
Peach-Pit
#84. From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success ... I'm just here to cash in.
Bill Watterson
#85. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you want to do and don't let anyone tell you, you can't.
Emily Jackson
#86. Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?"
"They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.
Karen Traviss
#87. I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.
Jessica Raine
#88. I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.
Jude Law
#89. I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.
Elaine Stritch
#90. Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.
Robert Greene
#91. Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an adventure. Wanting to is the principal requirement. If you can do and want to, don't not. In short, while alive, live.
Malcolm Forbes
#92. ...if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them.
Paula Hawkins
#93. Wait a second, Naima. We should stop. I don't want you to think we have to do anything we can't walk back from.
G.L. Tomas
#94. The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a very good reason. And just because they're no longer a superpower doesn't mean they don't want to be again. - Oliver Stone
David Baldacci
#96. I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner
#97. I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you.
Shel Silverstein
#98. I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
Felicia Day
#99. Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.
Henry David Thoreau
#100. I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.
Adele
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