Would Be Quotes - Page 227

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

I always did workshops. I would be at theater camp, doing shows, or after-school programs.

For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen. And Id say that would be very handsome. They would be almost as close as the best reproductions.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

The thing is, my appearance – that’s never been my moneymaker. I’m fine being small. I’m fine being all the things I am. And I’m happy I’m not supposed to be on the 50 Most Beautiful list all the time, because that would be super f**king stressful.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

Democrats are not angry about 9/11. Sad, maybe - sad that it didn't happen on Clinton's watch so his legacy would be more than a semen stain. But they're not angry.