What It S Like Quotes

#1. I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

Bruce Willis

#2. I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them ... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Jason Alexander

#3. There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother ... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

Brie Larson

#4. Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this.
He turns out the light.
BLACKOUT

Harold Pinter

#5. I know what it's like to be growing up, called 'deaf and mute' and 'deaf and dumb.' They're words that are very degrading and demeaning to people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It's almost ... it's almost libelous, if you want to say that.

Marlee Matlin

#6. Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.

Mattie Stepanek

#7. My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.

Maya Banks

#8. You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Adolph Green

#9. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

Lee Tergesen

#10. Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.

Zoe Kazan

#11. So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Jackson Browne

#12. Because you understand. More than anyone. Because you know what it's like never to trust anyone - to be completely alone, lost in a disguise of your own making. Because ... because for quite some time I've -

Sara B. Larson

#13. I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

Maria Semple

#14. God knows what it's like to lose a son,

Rick Warren

#15. My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.

Emilia Clarke

#16. Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.

Ted Strickland

#17. I need to breathe again." Each word vibrated as though torn from his very soul. They wrapped around her with their thorny edges and cut in deep. "I need to feel what it's like not to be dying inside." The tip of his nose grazed the side of her face lightly, barely even a whisper. "I need you.

Airicka Phoenix

#18. My biggest thing is, I'm learning what it's like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

Genevieve Padalecki

#19. You can only really appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down.

Christina Engela

#20. The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

Brian Wilson

#21. I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Louis C.K.

#22. Do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it? - Tiny Copper (Will Grayson, Will Grayson)

John Green

#23. I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.

Eva Mendes

#24. I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise.

Dean Koontz

#25. This is what it's like to say goodnight and mean goodbye.

Neil Hilborn

#26. I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Jenny Han

#27. As a doctor, you have a sense of what it's like to be sick, but until you've gone through it yourself, you don't really know.

Paul Kalanithi

#28. With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

John Irving

#29. You feel other people's pain deeply." "Well don't know bout all that but I know what it's like ta lose a daughter. They gonna be in a haze for a long time ta come. It'll be all they think bout." "Does it get easier over time?" "No, it don't. But you learn ta function anyway.

Victor Methos

#30. One word love: curiosity. You long for freedom. You long to do what you want to do because you want it. To act on selfish impulse. You want to see what it's like. One day you won't be able to resist.

Jack Sparrow

#31. Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

Billy Crudup

#32. I'm an appropriate companion personality for a girl your age, young missy. We spent all night ransacking that library to see what I should be like. You got any idea what it's like watching eight million hours of Disney AVs?

Peter F. Hamilton

#33. You don't know what it's like to lose a child, but I do. When they're gone, every cold word you uttered is a scar on your soul, every missed opportunity with them a pain that will never heal.

Jeaniene Frost

#34. We're naked under our clothes; we both know what it's like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be able to get a hard-on, or worry that a bloke across the room might be looking at your bird and you might have to fight him but he looks well hard.

Russell Brand

#35. Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".

Sakura Tsukuba

#36. Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows ... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

Chris Pine

#37. I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.

Mike Nesbitt

#38. I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

Pierce Brosnan

#39. If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Gerard Way

#40. I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".

John Cameron Mitchell

#41. If you don't risk your heart, you'll never know what it's like for it to fully be whole.

Riley Hart

#42. Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

Nikki DeLoach

#43. I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

Jesse Eisenberg

#44. Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.

James Howe

#45. You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Doug Harvey

#46. If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

Guy Finley

#47. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Dave Chappelle

#48. Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.

Frederick Lenz

#49. Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem ... Maybe.

Henning Mankell

#50. I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

Nicolas Cage

#51. I'm Penryn. I'm named after an exit off Interstate 80."
"Nice." They nod as if to say they understand what it's like to have parents like that.

Susan Ee

#52. One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Ben Carson

#53. Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Larry David

#54. D'Artagnan is the youngest of the four, and they're like his big brothers. They bring him up and teach him the ways of what it's like to be a Musketeer, and he embraces it with open arms.

Luke Pasqualino

#55. Guess we both know what it's like to be damaged good, don't we?

Lauren Gallagher

#56. Wonder what it's like to have a peaceful life, Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting.

J.K. Rowling

#57. I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

Ted Cruz

#58. Do you know what it's like," he said, "to feel that you're in the wrong body?"
"Well actually ... " the Doctor began, wiggling his own fingers in front of his face.

Jacqueline Rayner

#59. That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

Jon Stewart

#60. There's a voice inside of me that I know people will relate to; I just haven't really had the opportunity to let it flourish. To sit there and explain to a guy what it's like to be a kick-ass woman is hard. I think there're only a handful of directors out there that get it.

Michelle Rodriguez

#61. I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.

John Corey Whaley

#62. What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

David Levithan

#63. As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Anika Noni Rose

#64. Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.

Lupe Fiasco

#65. We know what it's like to be men. But they know nothing about us.

Jenny Nordberg

#66. You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.

Michaela Watkins

#67. When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

Greg Norman

#68. Do you know what it's like to hear those words? To hear the person you love telling you they love you, too? If you don't now, I hope you do one day.

Rachel Ward

#69. I want to feel what pressures other people feel. Experience the world guided by someone else's moral compass. See and hear and taste with senses formed in a completely different mold than mine. I want to see what it's like to live someone else's lie ... Someone else's life.

Michele Jaffe

#70. Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!

Dan Aykroyd

#71. A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

Cass McCombs

#72. I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

Matthew Specktor

#73. If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology.

Joseph Campbell

#74. It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?'

Mia Wasikowska

#75. I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

Julie Andrews

#76. I can't define it, I can't tell someone who isn't a cougar what it's like. There's something that happens at Washington State; you quietly and subtly become infected...Washington State is a passion. Being a cougar is a passion

Jim Walden

#77. That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#78. You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Larry Page

#79. You don't know what it's like to be alone until you've had someone inside your head.

Ann Aguirre

#80. People who don't get seasick have no idea what it's like. It's not just nausea. It's nausea plus losing the will to live.

Maria Semple

#81. So, what it's like, Terry? Being a father."
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"It's like having a gun to your head all the time. Because I know if anything happens to her, anything, then my life is over.

Michael Connelly

#82. I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Sarah Jones

#83. You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

Haruki Murakami

#84. Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it's like to spend one's entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?

Audur Ava Olafsdottir

#85. If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.

Margaret Atwood

#86. I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD ... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it

Jim Morrison

#87. I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Karen Gillan

#88. It's no surprise that readers are better people. Having experienced someone else's life through abstract eyes, they've learned what it's like to leave their bodies and see the world through other frames of reference.

Anonymous

#89. I know what it's like to have friends in other Clans. To feel that there's something stronger that your Clan calling you away from home.

Erin Hunter

#90. I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in
your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than
that?

Sidney Sheldon

#91. I think wow, I imagine this is what it's like to have friends.

Tahereh Mafi

#92. I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love.

Nikki Reed

#93. One cannot learn all about what it's like to run a marathon by interviewing only those who drop out - but one can learn something.

Daniel C. Dennett

#94. I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.

Sophie Kinsella

#95. Once you have experienced what it's like to have a truly ordered house, you'll feel your whole world brighten.

Marie Kondo

#96. You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.

Jim Gaffigan

#97. If you've ever been hungry then you'll never be full and I know what it's like to be hungry. When I was 13, I realized I could control my destiny through hard work. I had my hands and I was going to work my ass off, I was going to initiate and create some sort of change in my life.

Dwayne Johnson

#98. Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.

Rachel Smith

#99. Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like.

J.R. Ward

#100. I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

Michael Gove