Top 100 If I Had To Quotes
#1. If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Werner Herzog
#2. I loved teaching. And I always used to say that acting was just something I did purely on my own terms, and that if I had to make a living from it there would be too much pressure.
Brendan Gleeson
#3. Hope.
If I had to explain to someone what part of the human body carries the spirit I would say it is the same part that carries hope. You can't survive without hope.
Cassia Leo
#4. If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
Ray Davies
#5. I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
Sarah Vowell
#6. I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
Gary Oldman
#7. If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.
John Irving
#8. If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated.
Herman Koch
#9. Either way, I couldn't let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would.
Meredith Wild
#10. I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
Sally Phillips
#11. That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.
James Patterson
#12. So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#13. If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet.
Nicole Williams
#14. Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
Gloria Steinem
#15. Death might be waiting, but I was going to be a queen. would have my throne if I had to carve a path of blood and bone to get it back.
Death could wait.
Roshani Chokshi
#16. If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
Tom Landry
#17. If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#18. If I had to point to one invention in my lifetime that separated howling barbarism from civilized existence, it would be coffee.
Edward W. Robertson
#19. I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Winston Churchill
#20. If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.
Sabrina Bryan
#21. If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.
Jenny Offill
#22. If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
Graham Greene
#23. If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.
Jim Thompson
#24. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan
#25. If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?
Richard Rorty
#26. If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
Newt Gingrich
#27. If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I'd say it's the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.
Harvey MacKay
#28. If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.
Moby
#29. I-I know you think me a monster, and maybe I am, b-but please never doubt how much I believed in you. Everything I did was for you. Yes, I did it all for you! I would live and die for you. Over and over if I had to. I was never your enemy.
Giselle Simlett
#30. I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies
#31. I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
Nas
#33. I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
Arthur Darvill
#34. If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn't have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe.
Ransom Riggs
#35. Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the whole universe for her if I had to. I would do anything to keep her safe. Kill. Heal. Die. Anything. Because she was my everything.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#36. If I had to fight dirty to keep him, then I'd be the dirtiest motherfucker there ever was.
Cambria Hebert
#37. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.
Darryl Strawberry
#38. Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. I'm the kind of person who, if I were living in another time, if I had to pick any time, I would probably be a pioneer. I just love the simplicity of what it means to work hard with your hands - to eat and survive.
Evangeline Lilly
#40. If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
Ana Monnar
#41. My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?
Anthony Jeselnik
#42. If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
Wayne Gretzky
#43. I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.
Larry David
#44. What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.
Klaus Barbie
#45. When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
M.I.A.
#46. If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.
Forrest Gregg
#47. I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.
Clarence Thomas
#48. If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.
Marianne Williamson
#49. If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.
Conn Smythe
#50. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.
Cassandra Clare
#51. If I had to think it over for weeks and take a vote on it, I'd not bomb anyone.
Mike Bove
#52. It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
Gary Player
#53. I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
#54. I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.
John Poindexter
#55. When I took aim at the very place Amirah had been just seconds before and pulled the trigger, I knew the risk. I knew the cost. And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat if I had to.
Ally Carter
#56. I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.
Jim Watt
#57. I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous, even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.
Eva Longoria
#58. I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.
Bonnie Langford
#59. If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both
George Best
#60. To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.
Lee Trevino
#61. I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.
Jane Goodall
#62. We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
#63. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.
Andrew Weil
#64. I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
Jim Woodring
#65. If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
Barbara Kingsolver
#66. Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
Jessica Savitch
#67. If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.
George Soros
#68. If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
Lara Stone
#69. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
Andrew Bird
#70. If I had to honour the best author, would choose Jesus, Author of Life and Salvation.
Evans Biya
#71. If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing.
Cyd Charisse
#72. Once I was asked if I had to take a test with the school board to prove I was competent to teach my children. My answer, "God made me competent to teach my children when He ordained me to be their mother.
Jamerrill Stewart
#73. If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.
Ron Fairly
#74. It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?
Zadie Smith
#75. It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)
David Gessner
#76. I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.
Johnny Depp
#77. If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!
Jose Mourinho
#78. You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.
Eben Alexander
#79. People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage ... ' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
Iris Apfel
#80. If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
Henry Rollins
#81. If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#82. If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
David Brooks
#83. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
#84. If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
James Beard
#85. I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.
Kelly Corrigan
#86. If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.
Drew Goddard
#87. When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
Jean Rhys
#88. If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
Ron Howard
#89. Where once I'd felt the need to live up to his expectations, I now felt as if I had to make up for all his mistakes.
Barack Obama
#90. The ship shudders as we make the leap, passing into grimspace. Pleasure spikes through me, as if I'm taking a hit of my favorite chem. It sings through my veins, echoing the mad whorl of colors outside the view screen. If I had to describe it, I'd say it's like entering the heart of a dying star.
Ann Aguirre
#91. I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
Bryan Robson
#92. I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't resist buying because they were so pretty. If I had to imbibe at Starbucks, I'd want a mocha with an extra shot.
Emma Holly
#93. Last night, I killed a man. If I had to, I'd do it all over again. Afterwards I slept like a baby. There's a surprising amount of physical exertion in murder - they don't call it a dead weight for nothing.
A.E. Rawson
#94. If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you.
J.K. Rowling
#95. I believe that we are at or near the apex of a great civilization ... In 50-100 years, if we're a poor third to some countries in Asia, I wouldn't be surprised. If I had to bet, the part of the world that will do best will be Asia.
Charlie Munger
#96. This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Matt LeBlanc
#97. If I had to do it all over again, I'd rather endure the pain in the beginning than have had it easy and then have it all go to shit later on.
Jamie McGuire
#99. If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old, but somehow more alive than any other place I've ever been.
L. H. Cosway
#100. If I had to choose a single action I guess I would say stop driving.
Chip Giller
