Top 100 I Want To Do Quotes
#1. I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.
Bipasha Basu
#2. In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.
Amy Heckerling
#3. All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.
Jim Gaffigan
#4. I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.
Jon Crosby
#5. If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.
Preity Zinta
#6. I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.
Rob Thomas
#7. I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.
Dree Hemingway
#8. I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
Eric Cantona
#9. Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
Zoe Tapper
#10. The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite.
Greg Wise
#11. When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.
Niall Horan
#12. The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
Michael Caine
#13. I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.
Erich Maria Remarque
#14. I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.
Louie Psihoyos
#15. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem
#16. Hey, it's been a great run. I loved it. This is my favorite place in the whole wide world. But this is something I want to do and I'm going to say yes to it,'
John Morris
#17. I want to do what's right. But how can I, when I am faced with only impossible choices?
Margi Preus
#18. I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.
Anton Du Beke
#19. I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
Heath Ledger
#20. I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Minoru Yamasaki
#21. 'But it's weird, right? It's like we're a gay bug zapper and all the gays keep flocking to us because they think we're bright and shiny, but all I want to do is electrocute most of them because they annoy the crap out of me with their high-pitched whining.'
T.J. Klune
#22. I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.
Hillary Clinton
#23. The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#24. If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'
Stephen Daldry
#25. Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.
Eddie Van Halen
#26. I think it is what you do with your wealth that is important. I don't believe in accumulating money for money's sake. It's one of the reasons I want to do more about helping women.
Cherie Blair
#27. Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.
Joseph M. Juran
#29. Peppermint Patty's team is short a glove, so I'm walking over to lend them mine."
"You're kidding! Don't you think they're taking advantage of you?"
"No, I'm doing it because I want to do it."
"What are you, some kind of mystic?!
Charles M. Schulz
#30. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.
El-P
#31. I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
Ali Lohan
#32. Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.
Melanie Benjamin
#33. I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.
Georgia Salpa
#35. Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
Joan Jett
#36. When I do 'Sweet Tooth,' really, whatever I want to do with the characters kind of goes. I'm sort of in charge.
Jeff Lemire
#37. I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
Adele
#38. I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.
Warren Buffett
#39. I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'
Casey Nicholaw
#40. My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
Gabriel Macht
#41. I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.
Johnny Hunt
#42. I've never been to college, and I think about that. But I kept putting it off, and I am also thinking about having a child, and that's really important. Also, I want to do a lot of traveling and surfing - two of my hobbies.
Jorja Fox
#43. Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
Nancy Astor
#45. It's weird. All I want is to play my guitar when I am on a movie set. But then when I am out on tour, all I want to do is get into a role again. When I am doing one thing, I am missing the other. I guess that's how I know I should keep doing both.
Shane Harper
#46. What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.
Simon Birch
#47. That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Acting is something where you have to completely remove yourself. So, do I find acting easy? Absolutely no! Do I want to do more of it? Do I enjoy doing it? Do I feel appreciative to get this opportunity? Absolutely!
Mark McGrath
#49. You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
Gunther Schuller
#50. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#51. But the banging of the door as punctuation caused Tiffany to think and she thought suddenly, I want to do it my way. Not how the other witches think it should be done. I can't be Granny Weatherwax for them. I can only be me, Tiffany Aching.
Terry Pratchett
#52. By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.
Michael Ian Black
#53. I want to do things right. I really, really do.
Luis Suarez
#55. All I want to do is drink beer and train like an animal.
Rod Dixon
#57. There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
Ryan Phillippe
#58. I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
Buck Owens
#59. I'm always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.
David Wright
#60. I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.
Rhona Mitra
#61. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
Ruth Wilson
#62. I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.
David Bowie
#63. I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.
Dominic Savio
#64. When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'
Kevin O'Leary
#65. I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
Julia Glass
#66. The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
Billy Corgan
#67. I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch away from comedy. What I want to do is continue to grow and extend myself, so if anything, I'm adding things on.
Darren Boyd
#68. I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."
Markus Zusak
#69. You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'
Harry Treadaway
#70. I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.
Selena Gomez
#71. The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones' arrangement of "One Mint Julep." I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that's what I want to do with my life. That's the sound I want to try to make.
Booker T. Jones
#72. I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
Gloria Steinem
#73. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.
Cynthia Rylant
#74. Money should not dictate how I live my life..
I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.
Manoj Arora
#75. Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.
Michel Gondry
#76. I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.
Danny Brown
#77. I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.
Stacey Jay
#78. All I want to do is hold you and protect you and love you. Will you let me do that, not matter the consequences?
Lynetta Halat
#79. If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with? And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.
Dorianne Laux
#80. Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."
Denis Waitley
#81. When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, 'I want to do the best I know how to do every day.'
Thomas S. Monson
#82. I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.
Michael Jackson
#83. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
Marc Anthony
#85. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
#86. Im now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do.
Antonio Banderas
#87. I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.
Tim Howard
#88. You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.
Marques Houston
#89. The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.
Stella Adler
#90. I want to do for every aspect of the human world a little bit of what Charles Darwin did for biology, and get you to see past the illusion of design, to see the emergent, unplanned, inexorable and beautiful process of change that lies underneath.
Matt Ridley
#91. I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.
Kether Donohue
#92. I am overcome by my own amazing sloth ... Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
Elizabeth Bishop
#93. As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
Joshua Bell
#94. God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.
Anne Holm
#95. Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can't we be united on behalf of our planet? And that's what I want to do.
Hillary Clinton
#96. Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now.
Samuel L. Jackson
#97. Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something ... I don't know!
Cara Delevingne
#98. I want to do everything with you. Everything that's possible in a lifetime.
Julie Maroh
#99. I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
Rie Rasmussen
#100. I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor.
Jessica Lucas
