Why Quotes

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it.

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.

Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.