Top 100 I Want To Do Something Quotes
#1. The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle
#2. I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"
Gina Carano
#3. With all the negativity in the world, I want to do something positive.
Fergie
#4. I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten
death.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. I want to do something big, something important.
George Bailey
#6. I want to do something splendid ... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
Tom Jenkinson
#8. Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.
Holly Madison
#9. I don't care what it takes. I'm tired of being pretty and nice ... I want to DO something.
Brandon Sanderson
#10. I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
Cara Delevingne
#11. I always follow my heart and my guts. If I want to do something, I have immense belief in hard work and myself. I have it in me to do well anywhere and in anything I do. I have a deep desire to excel in everything I do.
Preity Zinta
#12. I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.
Jann Klose
#13. There's nothing wrong with going out and playing for the fans that have been with you forever. I get it. It looks like a lot of fun. But that's not the thing that drives me. I already did that, and I appreciate everything I got from it, but I want to do something new and fresh.
JC Chasez
#14. I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?
Simeon Rice
#15. I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.
Gordon Brown
#16. I like to just make things ... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'
Amy Sedaris
#17. I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg.
Kevin Warwick
#18. I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained ... Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor.
Shazia Mirza
#19. If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.
Chris Cornell
#20. I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.
Errollyn Wallen
#21. I've always told people that to be successful you have to enjoy what you're doing and right now I really enjoy what I'm doing. I'm having too much fun with my life. Why would I want to do something else? Why would I want to run for governor?
Donald Trump
#22. Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
Benny Green
#23. I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
Whitney Houston
#24. When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.
Cory Hardrict
#25. I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
Dawn French
#26. I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
Kurt Cobain
#27. I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.
Suzanne Collins
#28. I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.
Marianne Faithfull
#29. I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...
Rosamond Lehmann
#30. I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
Brad Pitt
#31. When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.
Jean-Marc Vallee
#32. I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.
Bernie Mac
#33. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#34. But Mother, I don't want to go. It's just that ... I have to. I can't spend the rest of my life hiding in the attic.
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I don't want to be a burden[ ... ]I want to do something with my life. Figure out ways to help other third kids. Make - make a difference in the world.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#35. I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
Dylan Penn
#36. We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.
Michael Huffington
#37. I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#38. I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.
Bonnie Bassler
#39. I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
Idina Menzel
#40. I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing ... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Paul Klee
#41. I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
#42. We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#43. Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.
Brittany Snow
#44. If something gets too easy ... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.
Skrillex
#45. Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
Prince Royce
#46. If I want to make political decisions, I should stand for election. If I want to do something in the legal field, that's different; that is my - they are my qualifications, but you know, the politicians are the ones who stand up there and are answerable to the people.
Cherie Blair
#47. When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.
Nicolas Cage
#48. Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation.
Amit Abraham
#49. I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
Tyrone Power
#50. You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
Carly Simon
#51. When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
Elaine Stritch
#52. If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting ... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.
Alison Mosshart
#53. Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.
Clifford Stoll
#54. I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
Marge Piercy
#55. Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.
Evangeline Lilly
#56. When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
Janet Jackson
#57. I want to do something that nobody has done before me. And I want to do it in such a way that nobody will forget me for it.
Frank Frazetta
#58. When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#59. If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.
Kalup Linzy
#60. When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.
Poppy Montgomery
#61. I've always known what I've wanted, but I used to be shy about expressing that in regards to my career. So I've become a lioness. If something's happening that I don't necessarily feel comfortable about, I will speak my mind. Or if I want to do something, I go for it.
Tia Mowry
#62. I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.
Daniel Radcliffe
#63. How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'? What's the good of being the Rightful Heir anyway? All I get is trouble!
Garth Nix
#64. I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.
Ashley Benson
#65. I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
Kate Mara
#66. I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.
Patti Boyd
#67. Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Donald Judd
#68. I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.
Richard Seymour
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
Ruth Wilson
#75. 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
#76. I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
Alden Ehrenreich
#77. I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!
Carole Lombard
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.
Stella Adler
#83. I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.
Liz Phair
#84. I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.
Serena Williams
#85. The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
Dagmara Dominczyk
#86. I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.
Matthew McConaughey
#87. Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor Swift
#88. There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.
Tasha Smith
#89. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
#90. Hell, I didn't do relationships. Period. Though there was something about her that made me want to tell the old me to fuck off. "I
Lora Ann
#91. I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.
Andy Serkis
#92. I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
#93. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
Amanda Bynes
#94. There's something I want to show you. Do you think anyone would notice if we slipped away for a bit?" He raised an eyebrow at her. "Given that we make up a full quarter of the guest list, I would be a little insulted if they didn't notice." "It was a rhetorical question.
Marissa Meyer
#95. I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.
Tom Ford
#96. In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.
Amelia Warner
#97. But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like.
Lukasz Gottwald
#98. The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.
Edward Kitsis
#99. Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen
Dick Cheney
#100. I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.
Diane Kruger
