Top 100 Want To Do Quotes
#1. In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.
Sakyong Mipham
#2. I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.
Evan Goldberg
#3. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
Ruth Wilson
#4. I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. 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
#6. I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.
Peter Doig
#7. 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
#8. A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.
Gong Li
#9. I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.
Dylan Moran
#10. That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.
I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.
Tom Spanbauer
#11. They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
James M. Barrie
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved and songs that I wished I had recorded. Peter suggested that we pick some songs and see how they work with you and try to come up with arrangements and ideas about how you might want to do them.
Thelma Houston
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
Carine Roitfeld
#24. 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
#25. In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
Bill Ayers
#26. I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.
Jenna Dewan
#27. I think it takes a lot to put oneself in a place where, you know, that thing about "Feel the fear and do it anyway." You wonder what the driving force is that makes you want to do that and not just stay in a safer place.
Annie Lennox
#28. 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
#29. If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot.
Jackee Harry
#30. 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
#31. In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
Janet Jackson
#32. When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.
Johnny Depp
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.
Laura Bush
#36. If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#37. 'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly ... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.
David S.Goyer
#38. Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.
John Wood
#39. Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.
William Zinsser
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Today more than ever before, its time to go through with life. Stop thinking so hard about what it is that you want to do. Go out and conquer your dreams! Only you can walk your path. Remember that inner voice and use it to drive yourself straight to your determined finish line!
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#43. You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
Jeremy Piven
#44. It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.
David Legwand
#45. 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
#46. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream.
Anonymous
#47. Anything that controls my state of mind I never really want to do because I always want to be under control. That might be part of me being a Virgo. I never want to do something that stops me from being in control of who I am and my actions.
Keke Palmer
#48. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
#49. Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbour's worst date ever?
Liza Mundy
#50. I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.
William Katt
#51. 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
#52. But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.
Haruki Murakami
#53. We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
Sam Wood
#54. Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Malcolm Forbes
#55. Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do-that you don't want to show full breasts or whatever-and there are no arguments about it.
Shannen Doherty
#56. What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#57. [T]here is nothing worse than doing what you don't want to do, day after day, to little renummeration or applause. It's the death of your soul.
Adam Davies
#58. Do you know what you want to do?" "No. Not really." "But you know what you don't want to do?" "Yes," I answered definitely. "Then there's your starting point.
Kylie Scott
#59. I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
Diana Ross
#60. I fucking want to do things Mercy. I want your pleasure, but God, I want your fucking pain,
Lucian Bane
#61. The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.
Robert Knepper
#62. I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.
Gary Cherone
#64. If you put a bunch of chameleons on top of a bunch of chameleons on top of a bowl of Skittles what would happen? Is that science? Because if so, I finally get why people want to do science.
Jenny Lawson
#65. Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be ... how you want to feel.
Denise Linn
#66. With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
Jack Kilmer
#67. My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
Neil Young
#68. You know, I observed a man who masturbated until he bled. Did he want to do that?
David Wong
#69. Do what you need to do, so that you can do what you want to do. Success and convenience do not go together. You have what it takes to be successful, so you have to step up your game and make room for it.
Les Brown
#70. At last some time for pleasure trips
And do what you want to do
The time to just take your time
It's toodle-oo to time that flew
Those plan A's and B's
Coming down of that dusty shelf;
it's your time now just for you
To do things for your self.
John Walter Bratton
#71. It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.
Elizabeth Taylor
#72. I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#73. I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?
David Carradine
#74. I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
John Galliano
#75. I want to do an 'Extreme Makeover' show. You know that MTV show 'I Want To Have A Famous Face'? Well, I want to do a new show. I want to have a different famous face.
Pauly Shore
#76. I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.
Drew Daywalt
#77. I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go 'here's the film I want to do' and everyone runs around. I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.
Henry Rollins
#78. I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
Abby Wambach
#79. Anything we want to do, we can do. If we can dream it, it can be done.
Dov Charney
#80. I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
Andrew Eldritch
#81. I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"
Warwick Thornton
#82. God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
Sue Grafton
#83. You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.
Don Shula
#84. If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus
#85. We always want to do things the way we like, that's why we never change.
Marina Abramovic
#86. I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.
Bobby Orr
#87. I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.
Whit Stillman
#88. 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
#89. There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.
Ajay Devgan
#90. I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.
Spike Jonze
#91. Lady, we're not sleeping, we're resting then we're fucking some more. Last time I'll say it. Not done with you, got things I want to do to you and I'm doin' them.
Kristen Ashley
#92. I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time ... that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
Sally Ride
#93. The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.
Matt Berninger
#94. Caring about the environment has always been a big part of my life. When you grow up in a really beautiful place and you hear that it is jeopardised you want to do something.
KT Tunstall
#95. Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it
Richard Branson
#96. Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.
Mark Twain
#97. There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop comes to New York, teams up with racist cop, together they fight crime ... "
Miles Millar
#98. Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.
David Lipsky
#99. If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.
Brad Goreski
#100. It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'
Scott Schuman
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