Top 100 Want To Do Something Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
Brandon Thomas
#3. I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
Tom Ford
#4. I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.
Wayne Coyne
#5. 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
#6. We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.
John Green
#7. I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, ========== Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
Anonymous
#8. I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.
J.J. Abrams
#9. If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
Benny Goodman
#10. If you want to do something creative, life won't wait.
Hilary Reyl
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. If you want to do something courageous, try Love.
Sean King
#14. 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
#15. It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#16. Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
Peter Thiel
#17. I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
#18. I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
Lance Reddick
#19. Pretend you want to do something else and write on the sly until you're free to do whatever you want!
J.K. Rowling
#20. You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?
Laura Dave
#21. I just want to do something big if I do anything at all.
Nick Diaz
#22. There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.
Mike Krzyzewski
#23. I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.
Chris Burke
#24. You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it.
Jodi Picoult
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
Steve Carell
#28. I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.
Emma Watson
#29. There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.
Tom Thibodeau
#30. If something gets too easy ... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.
Skrillex
#31. Knowing you want to do something isn't the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn't the same as actually doing it well.
Meg Jay
#32. I guess I just want to do something amazing with my life. Isn't that what everyone wants?
Mira Grant
#33. What's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.
Bret Easton Ellis
#34. A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
Anita Roddick
#35. If you want to do something dangerous ... Don't tell your girlfriend!
Christopher Titus
#36. I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
John Green
#37. Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
Prince Royce
#38. Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.
George P. Shultz
#39. What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
Peter Hook
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.
Nikki DeLoach
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive ... ?"
"You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
Ken Kesey
#46. If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.
John C. Maxwell
#47. 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
#48. If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.
Wilbur Ross
#49. Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
Aziz Ansari
#50. 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
#51. The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
James Salter
#52. You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.
John Landis
#53. 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
#54. If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
James Dyson
#55. Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.
Clifford Stoll
#56. One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin
#57. I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
Marge Piercy
#58. 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
#59. If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.
Debasish Mridha
#60. If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.
Sean Swarner
#61. It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.
Jane Hamilton
#63. You want to do something good for the flowers? Then, keep the flowers in the soil, in nowhere else!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.
Melody Beattie
#65. When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
Janet Jackson
#66. 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
#67. The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
Louise Nurding
#68. If you want to do something, Go for it you've got nothing to loose
Louis Tomlinson
#69. When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#70. You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually,
Lisa Unger
#72. People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.
Emile Hirsch
#73. 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
#74. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.
Jake Byrne
#75. Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.
Orson Scott Card
#76. If you want to do something, you find a way.
Amber Heard
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
Bear Bryant
#81. My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
Ruth Wilson
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!
Tyra Banks
#87. Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Vance Packard
#88. The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.
Stella Adler
#89. Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
Wendy Kopp
#90. I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he's retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you're retired, people don't bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.
Bill Murray
#92. I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
Tippi Hedren
#93. Don't ask about the consequences if you want to do something. Otherwise you'll never do it.
Erich Maria Remarque
#95. If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Jeremy Irvine
#96. People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.
Marlo Thomas
#97. 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
#98. I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
Michael Apted
#99. 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
#100. 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
