“I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.” WantAgeActorsFineIndependentStudiosFiddleSupporting Actors Author:Robin Williams
“The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it.” IfsThinkingWantKindCharacterStoriesHappensActorsFineOrdinarySticksScriptsMaking ChangesFunny ThingsOne LinerFunny One Liner Author:Todd Farmer
“I don't understand why anyone would collect my work. Please understand... it's like writing Our House. It took me an hour, it was 30 years ago, get over it! But people say, No, no, it changed my life, and I don't understand that. I can't take that seriously as a producer of what I consider to be art. If they want to collect it, fantastic. If you see what I saw when I took it and it means something to you, then by all means collect it. If I make some money, um, fine.” PeopleIfsWantWritingYearsMeanArtI CanHouseHoursSawsChangedFinePleaseYears AgoProducersFantasticOver ItGet OverChanged My Life Author:Graham Nash
“Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.” WorldWantArtArtistCultureViewsConsciousnessRocksThis WorldProductsFinePhotographyProgramPhotographerUniversityEdgesExceptionMuseumsMainstreamExploringGalleryFine ArtsRock MusicSmall WorldArt Photography Author:Mark Klett
“A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on.” PeopleWantMovingSoundStyleFineBandStonesIncludingBorrowedCopying Author:Steven Tyler
“Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.” IfsWantTryingMeanPlayAbleNamesFineLabelsFormulasSpells Author:Lee Konitz
“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.” WantMightWould BePoliticalFunFrontsTvsFineSeriesDawnSunsetOccasionalTv Series Author:Ronald Reagan
“If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.” IfsWantTryingLooksAbleBeautifulActingExampleFineDamnBeautiful WomenStop TryingBollywood Author:Russell Peters
“If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.” IfsWantGivingHardArtistViewsFinePoint Of ViewRecommendationsCollaborating Author:Emmanuel Lubezki
“I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsPrayerTalkingFinePrayingBigger Author:Valerie June
“I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFeelsWantedSchoolFallAttitudeTalkingFineGraduatesComposerElitesGraduate SchoolSchoenberg Author:Missy Mazzoli
“When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.” PeopleWantFineSorrySaying Sorry Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“We're not unique in our family. We're more ambitious but we're not special. I'm not funnier than anyone else in my family; it's just that we wanted more than Raleigh, North Carolina, had to offer. If my brother wanted more than Raleigh had to offer, you would know his name. My sister Lisa has a really unique and different voice, but she doesn't want that. She's a fine writer, but never said, "I want a book. I want that kind of attention."” IfsKnowsWantKindSaidBookDifferentWantedNamesVoiceAttentionSpecialBrotherFineOffersUniqueMy FamilyOur FamilyMy BrotherMy SisterAmbitiousCarolinaNorth CarolinaDifferent VoicesRaleigh Author:David Sedaris
“I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.” PeopleWantNeedsWholeFacesStuffProcessSoundHoursFiveMinutesFineGoes OnPainfulEightYour FaceTapeAwkwardCastingFive MinutesAdjustmentDraining Author:Mike Judge
“I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but if it isn't what you do, eventually it seems like that will cause you to not be able to do what you do. If you did that for a couple years, you would just become someone else, which is fine, I guess...but I don't want to become someone else. I want to do what I enjoy and what feels right.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsSeemsAbleCausesEnjoySuccessfulFineCoupleMaking MoneyBeing SuccessfulFeels Right Author:Will Oldham
“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there." When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else, because you never can get it done. You never are going to get there. Instead, what you want to do is get to a place where you are at peace. You are connected to God.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingDoneSpiritualGoalLevelsConsciousnessFineHigherApproachConnectedWhat You WantSettingSettingsWarriorWhere You AreSetting GoalsHigher LevelGet It DoneArchetypeWhere You Are Going Author:Wayne Dyer
“I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. I think that we got there, and that was really special. I wanted texture and grit to everything. And then, you have an actress like Sarah Gadon, where you could rub dirt on her face and she'd look like she stepped off of a Vogue cover, and that's fine.” ThinkingWorldWantLooksWantedFacesSpecialFineSizeActressesDirtTextureGritVogue Author:Bridget Carpenter
“Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."” PeopleIfsWantBelieveSoundLike YouFineWhat You Want Author:Joan Baez
“I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.” PeopleIfsWantWritingTryingSongCoursesLevelsRecordsFineCoupleHigherInvolvedFedsConstructionHigher LevelFed Up Author:Michael Gira
“I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantShouldFinePracticalsIpods Author:Tristan Perich
“I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there.” PeopleWantMy OwnWonderfulFineGenrePublishers Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.” WantShowsLinesWalksAttentionFinePerformancesClothingsFar AwayFine Lines Author:Mia Moretti
“If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I clearly say the n-word in public, eight times. I think that's the count.” IfsThinkingWantFinePoliceEightBlogsBloggers Author:Neal Brennan
“If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveFine Author:Conor McGregor
“If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantTryingStoriesUseSchoolThreeTreeFineCrossesConstitutionPropertyImpressYardsPublic SchoolCrucifixionChristmas Tree Author:John Shelby Spong
“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingGoalFineSettingSettingsWarriorWhere You AreSetting GoalsArchetypeWhere You Are Going Author:Wayne Dyer
“I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!” PeopleWantNeedsLongCareAbleRecordsTroubleFineTake Care Author:Ledisi
“If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.” IfsWantRunningChurchFineGayMembersConstantUnionsRatePopulationHomosexuality Author:Andrew Solomon
“There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.” IfsThinkingWantWellsChildrenKidsExampleFineKissingClassicTrendsAuntVisitorsKiss MeChild RearingAbhorrentGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantIdeasReasonHeardTeachingFineDaughterEverydayMannersMy DaughterAuntSillinessGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter if the other person doesn't know. Look, I'm not breaking new ground by recording people who don't want to be recorded.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLooksPersonsMatterPartyFineNew ZealandDisclosure Author:David Farrier
“I think it's always been an arrangement that had political objectives and goals, which is fine. Get married for whatever reason you want, as far as I'm concerned.” ThinkingWantReasonPoliticalGoalFineMarriedConcernedObjectivesArrangements Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I have a difference with Senator [Bernie] Sanders, who promises free college, which, if you look at the fine print, depends really on governors coming up with a lot of the money, which I don't think is a particularly wise bet. And I have a plan to help people pay down their student debt, because I want to unleash the entrepreneurial energy that young people have.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLooksHelpingYoungEnergyDifferencesPayWisePlansStudentsCollegeFineDependsPromiseDebtPrintGovernorsSenatorsEntrepreneurialFine Print Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary's [Clinton] okay if they [FBI] can't prove any criminality or if nobody wants to charge her with it, then whatever she did is fine.” IfsWantFineProveOkayClintonFbiCriminality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I was younger I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.” WantFeelsFirstsCountrySometimesEnoughWantedWinningFocusFineBe GoodFeel GoodImpress Author:Usain Bolt
“If we're a natural man, we're attracted to a woman. You are our natural partner in the act of procreation. Now there's a time and a place for everything, but when a fine-looking woman, with a fine-looking form walks down the street, a man could be working with a jackhammer, and when he spies that woman, he'll watch her as she walks. What kind of thought comes up in your mind? You don't say, "Oh, what a great creature." Like a dog you may say, "Man, I'd sure like to have some of that!" That's not what you want.” IfsMenWantMindKindMayFormNaturalWalksWatchesStreetsDogFineCreaturesCome UpWhat You WantPartnersSpyProcreation Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad.” IfsWantTryingMeanLinesFineJokesAgreeSakeBoardsExpensesTweetBeing MeFine LinesBeing Mean Author:Brad Williams
“The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an academic, and the system actually works quite well. So for people who have the gift and like to go spend their lives as scholars, it's fine. But the trouble is that it's become a kind of a meal ticket - you can't get a job if you don't have a Ph.D.” PeopleIfsWantWellsKindJobsTroubleFineMealsAcademicScholarTickets Author:Freeman Dyson
“A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsShouldChildrenYoungActorsFineSexualityYoung WomenObligedChild Actors Author:Mara Wilson
“On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantUseHandsFineInternetMassThreatTeenagerBad ThingsInteractionSuperficialPercentages Author:Noam Chomsky
“None of my 22 grandchildren have genetics played. Three of my four boys were golf pros, but I think they all sort of said, "You know, I'm not going to push" with their children. I was the same with my kids. I said, "You know, if they want to play golf, that's fine, but I'm not going to push them."” IfsThinkingKnowsWantChildrenSaidPlayKidsThreeBoysFourFineGolfGrandchildrenGenetics Author:Jack Nicklaus
“If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.” IfsThinkingWantKidsHugeFineGolfGolfersFactual Author:Nick Faldo
“I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be given dole. He should not be eligible for welfare. If he can work and if there is work available, he should take his choice. If he wants to be a hermit or beggar, that's fine. If he wants to move with the sun and live off the land, that's fine. If he is in a society which has work for him I don't think he should theoretically be eligible for welfare.” IfsThinkingMenWantGivingShouldMovingYoungChoicesGivenSunLandFineHealthyAvailableIncomeWelfareBeggarHermitsHealthy Society Author:Pierre Trudeau
“Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in. Michael [Hall] and Molly [Ringwald ] already had school to go to with their tutors. Ally [Sheedy] wanted nothing to do with high school. She said, "I remember it fine. I don't want to go back." Which is great. So Emilio [Estevez] and I went. And Emilio lasted a couple hours because people recognized him from The Outsiders that had already been out, so his cover was blown.” PeopleIfsWantTryingSaidWantedSchoolRememberHoursFineCoupleHigh SchoolLocalsHallsAlliesOutsidersTutor Author:Judd Nelson
“If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.” IfsWantHas BeensFactsMightTermMillionsFineDegreesPaidInstitutionsSellsDollarsBillionsFirmArtificialMortgage Author:Warren Buffett
“It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.” IfsWantMatterStatesHomeRocksFineBarackGood TimesPlasticHawaiiBananasHome State Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."” WantArtMy OwnFineFine Arts Author:Mark Alan Stamaty
“I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.” ThinkingWantWaitingIssuesSecurityFineComplicatedHearingHandleFamiliarCommitteesHomelandConfirmationHomeland SecurityArmed Services Author:Claire McCaskill
“Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."” WantGivingSaidLawAsksJusticeInformationJudgingFineCitizensBattleCourtDataDepartmentMutualIrelandAssistanceMicrosoftTreatiesWarrantsData Centers Author:Edward Snowden
“It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.” IfsWayWantIdeasFineFemaleDressesDotsRecoilPolkaPolka Dots Author:Susan Faludi