Top 100 I Can Be Quotes
#1. Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
Miranda Lambert
#2. When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.
Eddie McClintock
#3. Even if 1000 people test something and come up with the same conclusion, I can be the 1001st person to bring out a different result
Nauman Khan
#4. If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.
Richard Hammond
#5. The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
Salma Hayek
#6. Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
Romain Duris
#7. Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I'm nothing if I can't be me. If I can't be true to myself, they don't mean anything.
Kanye West
#8. Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.
Richard Bowes
#9. I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.
Tyler Thornburg
#10. I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.
Margaret Atwood
#11. This is my journal. I can be candid here. Candidly, I could not be more miserable.
Thomas M. Disch
#12. I can be a bit grumpy. I'm full of angst, and hormones.
Nicholas Hoult
#14. I'm vicious. I can be nice off the ice, but on the ice, that's not where it's time to make friends.
Ashley Wagner
#15. Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.
Lily Tomlin
#16. I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.
Bill Burr
#17. Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
Zoe Kravitz
#20. This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Yoochun makes great songs..so I want to go fishing w/ him. That way I can be closer to him as well.
Junsu
#22. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson
#24. It was my decision, it always has been. I decide my own destiny. I can be guided towards it but in the end the decision is mine alone.
S.E. Fearon
#25. I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
Justin Hayward
#26. All I can be is me- whoever that is.
Bob Dylan
#27. I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.
Nick Carter
#28. I haven't even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.
Richelle Mead
#29. If ever I did a good deed in my life - if ever I thought a good thought - if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer - if ever I wished a righteous wish, - I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.
Charlotte Bronte
#30. I can be a woman on a mission. But I'll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.
Kia Carrington-Russell
#31. I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I'm a journalist. My life's on the road, my studio is the planet.
Sebastiao Salgado
#32. I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume
#33. In a sense you are always more clearly aware than I can be of what I am in the world; and when I confront my own face, there may be a moment of fear, as I try to fit the person whom I know so well to this thing that others know better
Roger Scruton
#34. You, Nikki, are the only person I can be with and still be alone. You see me - the core of me. And not only do you see me, but you love me.
J. Kenner
#35. I'm as good as I can be right now, i don't see anything that I need to really change or do differently. I'm on top of my game.
Bubba Watson
#36. I must prove that I can be, that I am and will be, a normal person. Perhaps no better, but certainly no worse than the rest.
Henri Charriere
#37. I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.
Alanis Morissette
#38. I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
Alice Walker
#39. The soldier can only be human. He can never be a dragon." Ember started to reply, but i leaned down so that our faces were maybe an inch apart. She froze, and i brushed a palm across her cheek.
"I can be both
Julie Kagawa
#40. When I remember something which I had,
But which is gone, and I must do without,
I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
It makes me sigh to think on it,
but yet
My days will not be better days, should I forget.
Jean Ingelow
#41. I'm not the perfect girl but I am worth your time I am a girl who will care, love, and hold u no matter what ... I can be anything u want me 2 be I will change everything just to have a chance with u because how could someone like me get a guy like u
Sereana Crowley
#42. He changed me...here" He tapped his chest. "I'm not sure I can be the same person I used to be."
"I'm not asking you for that, man. I'm not asking you to forget or even forgive. I'm telling you to find a way to get around it, not over it.
Ann Simko
#43. I love that you call me when you are agitated. I am honoured by your trust. I find, too, that I can be imperfect with you. Such a relief."(65)
Kevin Mwachiro
#44. But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.
Will Estes
#45. I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis
#46. Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#47. I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.
Lia Ices
#48. I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.
Michael Ealy
#49. If I can be serious now, and I have the feeling I can.
David Letterman
#50. I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them.
Ricky Schroder
#51. If I can be an advocate for people to get healthy that's good, and it's not about just needing to go to the gym.
Craig David
#52. I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
Juanita M. Kreps
#53. I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.
King Tuff
#54. That's true. It doesn't make any sense. Welcome to the adult world, coming soon. I work so I can work more. I try not to want anything so maybe I'll get something. I starve so I can be less and more. I try to be free so I can be alone. And there's no point to any of it. They left out that part.
David Vann
#55. I'm ephemeral as much as I can be, so I started to think about the idea of not working. It's really about a change of attitude. It's not so much about stopping, but about re-thinking the meaning of one's production.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#56. I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
Bell Hooks
#57. I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.
Khalil Greene
#58. I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Theodore Bikel
#59. It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.
Gary Johnson
#60. I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
Arundhati Roy
#61. I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.
Fay Vincent
#62. I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
David Budbill
#63. But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
Edward Hirsch
#64. I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'
Michael Bay
#65. I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion, sometimes tells elaborate shaggy dog stories just to work up to a pun or punch line. My challenge is to use humor and wordplay to reinforce the emotional core of the novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#66. I can be an arrogant people If I have to,
or when the situation demands me to act so.
It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.
So if I know not people well, I don't judge them.
Toba Beta
#67. I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
Henry Rollins
#68. Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
Imelda Staunton
#70. THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#71. Marked by justice," I say. Sevro rolls his eyes. "What? I can be funny." "Keep practicing.
Pierce Brown
#72. I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.
Tamera Mowry
#73. I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.
Mariel Hemingway
#74. I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.
Miley Cyrus
#75. People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.
Cecelia Ahern
#76. It hurts that I can be so full of him while he's so empty of me.
David Levithan
#77. My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.
Michelle Franklin
#78. I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.
Patricia Velasquez
#80. I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.
Brian Griese
#81. Being Mormon is a big part of who I am, and I try very hard to live the right way, but I don't know that I'm an example. I hate to say, 'Yes, look at me. I'm a good example of being Mormon.' I want to be the best person I can be, so in that aspect, maybe I'm a good example.
Stephenie Meyer
#82. I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#83. I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.
Tiki Barber
#84. I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
Macaulay Culkin
#85. Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.
Jonas Mekas
#86. I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.
Keith Stanfield
#87. I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
Louise Hay
#88. My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.
Nicki Minaj
#89. As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
Oona Chaplin
#90. She pushed a finger against his shoulder, pushing him so he was flat on his back on the bed. "Now behave yourself and I'll show you how much fun I can be.
Avery Flynn
#91. I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.
Kevin Durant
#92. Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
River Phoenix
#93. I pay other people a generous salary so i can be with you.
Sylvia Day
#94. I know I wasn't the person you needed me to be before, but I can be if you'll let me.
Rachel Spangler
#95. I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.
Albert Pujols
#96. People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.
Philip K. Dick
#97. You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.
Maria V. Snyder
#98. I can be your other hand when you need it.
Katja Millay
#100. Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
Brian Molko
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