Why Quotes

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act.

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.