Could Quotes

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'