Top 100 I Wish I Was Quotes
#1. I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
Paloma Faith
#2. I wish I was smaller. There are things about my face I'd change. But like all women I do the best I can.
Brandy Clark
#3. I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.
Jay Roach
#4. Sometimes I wish I was in the movies ... Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody'd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I'd just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.
Alan Heathcock
#5. I wish I was perfect as you think I am. I wish I were good. I'm not. I want to be good enough. For you,
Rachel Robinson
#7. I wish I was older. And that I knew more than I do.
Scott Frost
#8. POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.
J.M. Barrie
#9. I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
Erol Alkan
#10. I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
Manolo Blahnik
#11. I wish I was Bill Murray. I hope everything I've read about evolution is wrong, and I eventually evolve into him. It's one of only three plans I have.
Caitlin Moran
#12. I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Lord Melbourne
#13. I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
Candace Bushnell
#14. I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.
Dylan Moran
#15. You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.
Carson Daly
#16. I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.
Jennifer Garner
#17. As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.
Richard Ayoade
#18. But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Linda McCartney
#19. I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#20. I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.
Peter Farrelly
#21. God, I wish I was free. I wish I was a bird floating in the breeze.
Katie McGarry
#22. I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
Daphne Du Maurier
#23. What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
Sally Hawkins
#24. Powell to say: " 'I wish I was blacker. I'd like to be as black as you are, Miles.'"(3)
Peter Pullman
#25. I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.
Sheryl Crow
#26. There's a lot of annoying things about me. I don't know, I'm really shy at first, and I don't really like it. I wish I was a little more outgoing.
Kendall Jenner
#27. Oh, how I wish I was a woman - his woman.
A.R. Von
#28. I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like an old lady for various reasons. I have a yearning to live out my childhood and teenage years and have a bit more fun than I actually did.
Elena Tonra
#29. Are you my father, Lazarus?"
Mace's mouth twisted. "No, Lady. I wish I was. I wanted to be. But I am not.
Erika Johansen
#30. I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#31. When I'm acting, I wish I was out there, being a part of it and making it. It's all on your name to do that. It's your vision. You're going to get slandered for your work, and I like that. As an actor, it's so hard. I'd rather direct than act.
Jason Momoa
#32. i am suicidal i am depressed and i wish i was dead evey day but no body sees it or my tears and my scars that bleed
Laura Cooper
#33. I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
Danica Patrick
#34. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.
Jonathan Ames
#35. Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
Pink
#36. I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers
S.E. Hinton
#38. I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.
Donnie Wahlberg
#40. Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life's so much easier for them.
Cath Crowley
#41. I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me
Matt Hardy
#42. Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.
Brook Tesla
#43. He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.
John Daly
#44. I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style
Kate Nash
#45. But in this rare moment, I will also concede that like a moth to a flame, I'm drawn to her. To her innocence. To her kindness. To her ability to love. To all the things I wish I was capable of but have sacrificed in order to survive.
L.B. Simmons
#46. Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes ... ", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.
Mike Tyson
#48. She wears glasses that are not too small. I wish I was a girl like that. I wear contact lenses because glasses make me look like I am wearing glasses. I am not saying this properly. When she wears glasses she looks so quiet, like a grenade with the pin still in.
Joey Comeau
#49. I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's nobody stood there.
No prince to carry me off to the sunset ...
The reason why of course,
I don't look like his princess,
I look like his horse.
Rae Earl
#50. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.
Jacqueline Woodson
#51. I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
Adam Schlesinger
#53. I wish I was told to look after my teeth when I was younger. My smile is really important to me and one of my biggest assets, so I'm very conscious that I need to keep it in top condition.
Louise Nurding
#54. My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
Garance Dore
#55. I wish I was like that. More carefree."
"Anyone can be. People aren't carved out of marble. We're all works in progress. The trick is to define ourselves, rather than let outside influences define us.
J.A. Konrath
#56. Goodbye, fin,' I say. And I wish I was going with him, to some warm sheltered hideaway in the hills, wish that I, too, could lie down beside the dog, feel his unbroken heartbeat, smell the dust in his fur.
There's only hours. I steel my courage.
Surrender.
Sonya Hartnett
#57. I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#58. Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.
John Waters
#59. S ometimes I wish I was n o t alive. B u t I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I fee l my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning.
Anonymous
#60. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
Steve Nash
#61. Well, I reply, using the calm tone I know gets under her skin. I wish I was noble enough not to enjoy it, but I came to terms with my lack of nobility long ago.
Amie Kaufman
#62. Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.
Carl Sagan
#63. I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."
Jerry Seinfeld
#64. I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
Jack Whitehall
#65. Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.
Carol Bartz
#66. I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.
Woody Allen
#67. I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
Dave Navarro
#68. I wish I was a kid again,
because skinned knees are easier
to fix then broken hearts.
Anju
#69. I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.
Maurice Baring
#70. I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.
Tyra Banks
#71. I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'
Kim Dickens
#72. I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
Radiohead
#73. I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
John Keats
#74. I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
Aoife O'Donovan
#76. Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian, it would make life so much easier. I hear they're more than ninety-percent faithful. What a concept!
Nanci Rathbun
#77. Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home In my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#79. Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.
Lana Del Rey
#80. I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
Marilyn Monroe
#81. There was never anything I wanted to do more than play tennis. Never once walked out there and thought, 'I wish I was doing something else.' Not once.
Jimmy Connors
#82. I wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
Helen Dunmore
#83. I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
Michael Urie
#84. I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.
Steve Earle
#85. There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
Lauren Oliver
#86. I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.
Chris Kattan
#87. Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
Maisie Williams
#88. I smoke a cigarette, and pretend I'm normal. And I wish I was dead.
Neil Gaiman
#89. Sometimes I wish I was a cloud ... Just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me.
Masashi Kishimoto
#90. I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.
Sarah Hyland
#91. I get really excited when I get to go out on these press tours and meet fans, do signings and interact, and they can ask questions. Social media is a great way to do that, and I wish I was better at it, but I'm just not.
Lucy Fry
#92. Also your mom. Bro, I saw your mom kiss you on the cheek this morning, and forgive me, but I swear to God I was like, man, I wish I was Q. And also, I wish my cheeks had penises.
John Green
#93. I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.
Michele Bachmann
#94. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.
Ryan McGinley
#95. I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.
Todd Boyd
#96. I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am
Margaret Atwood
#97. It's a great huge game of chess that's being played
all over the world
if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join
though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
Lewis Carroll
#98. What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know ... . But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead - yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.
Katherine Mansfield
#99. I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.
Rebecca Lobo
#100. I love how New York is so multicultural. I wish I was ethnic, I'm nothing. Because if you're Hispanic and you get angry, people are like, 'He's got a Latin temper!' If you're a white guy and you get angry, people are like, 'That guy's a jerk.'
Jim Gaffigan
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