Wondered Quotes

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Before I start a film, there is always a period where I think, I`m not sure I can do this again. I remember that before I was going to start There Will Be Blood (2007), I wondered why I had said yes. When Martin Scorsese told me about Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York (2002), I wanted to change places with that man. But even then, I did not say yes right away. I kept thinking, I`m not sure I can do this again.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

(On one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)) "Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal aggressiveness that I hate. I`m afraid of it. I detest the character."

- Marlon Brando

"I used to watch my father go to work every day and come home and be so beat. We had seven kids. I always wondered what he really wanted to do. Now that I`m older and have my own kids, I realize there`s nothing better than to work for your kids. I`m sure he got more gratification from his work than I do. My father was feeding his kids every week, paying the heating bills. If he didn`t work, then it didn`t get done. There`s a tremendous amount of gratification from that. And a tremendous amount of pressure, too."

- Chris Rock

(on working with Michael Douglas on "Fatal Attraction") I always wondered why I never saw on film what I saw for real. He`s a vulnerable man, but he always played macho. In this he plays a loser and it was a real conflict for him to reveal that vulnerability. He kept saying, "Lemme do something!"

- Adrian Lyne

On the changing face of Indian cinema "At one time I wondered if I was doing the right films, today I know I have made the right choices. Indian cinema is changing, not step by step but by leaps. New blood is coming in, mindsets are changing and our exposure to the world is ever- increasing. I am glad these positive changes are happening when I am in the industry and not ten years from now."

- Preity Zinta

I wondered if, after all the things I`d been through, could I really act again?

- Mia Farrow

I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra instead of a modest thirty-four.

- Evelyn Keyes

Thank God my movies were flops. If I had become a movie star that would have been a personal disaster. Friends wondered what the hell I was doing at that time because acting seemed so out of character. But I knew I wasn`t suited to it. I don`t like my face being the focus.

- Rebecca Miller

(regarding The Birds (1963)) "You know, I`ve often wondered what the Audubon Society`s attitude might be to this picture."

- Alfred Hitchcock

I`ve only just started to think that I can make a career out of this. At the end of my time in Brookside, I wondered if I`d ever work again.

- Anna Friel

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn`t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I`ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

- Ben Stiller

When I saw archery, which I had never really looked at before, I wondered if it needed some of the same skills as pistol shooting.

- Geena Davis

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won`t be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. I was interested in changing my life. I have always had the ability to change and become other people through my acting. I took a good look at myself and decided I wanted something different from the way I was living. That`s not such a bad thing, is it? But, because of my past, I think it took a lot of people by surprise. They wondered what was happening to me. I was very much aware of what was happening. I`m living the way I want to live.

- Harrison Ford

You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I`m not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.

- Joel Madden

I still don`t know if I made the right decision when I went into acting. I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn`t gone into acting. Mind you, it`s a great life, going around pretending you`re other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

- John Malkovich

What`s most gratifying to me is Sarah Polley getting a nomination for screenplay adaptation. I was afraid she wouldn`t be recognized. I wondered if they were going to get this great piece of work. I`m very glad I did it because it`s a terribly important issue. We`ve got to face the fact that we`re living longer. This is the comeuppance of wishing for immortality. Back in the day we weren`t so obsessed about them (Oscars) in England. I didn`t know about the Academy Awards. I didn`t know what it was. I got the smell of the thing that it was terribly important but I wasn`t interested in it, but I figured maybe I could get something out of this. I told them I would go if my boyfriend and I could get a holiday in the desert. It almost feels the same today.

- Julie Christie

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that`s a pretty cool concept.

- Orlando Bloom

I also think that something interesting comes out when you do something that you`re afraid of, so I try to take things that I`m not sure that I can do. And this was certainly one of them. I didn`t feel like I was right for this at all, and I wondered how to find truth in a fairy tale.

- Ryan Gosling

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn`t really make sense for me to try to be something that I`m not.

- Carrie Underwood

I`ve always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn`t look so bad, huh? Well, OK you`re a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

- Cyndi Lauper

I wanted to kiss this woman so bad, I wondered how I would stay alive without it

- Richard Cohen

I am going to cry because this show has been as long as my career! I have wondered for 26 years what this would feel like! Thank you for terminating the suspense. (On accepting her Oscar in 1983] I`m not unaware of how I`m perceived, I just don`t care about it. Unless I really hurt someone`s feelings. I care about that. ...I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor. I`ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don`t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. Salary Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) $800,000 + 10% of the profits. Sweet Charity (1969) $800,000 + percentage of profits Irma la Douce (1963) $350,000 + 7.5% of the profits. The Apartment (1960) $175,000 Some Came Running (1958) $37,500 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) $6,000 Where Are They Now (June 2006) Completing filming for Closing the Ring (2007) in Northern Ireland and Canada. (1975) Release of book, You Can Get There From Here".

- Shirley MacLaine

There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.

- Betty Anderson

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

- Conrad Veidt

Something was different since even before I can remember. I was always enthralled with things the girls were doing. '¦ Whenever my parents were gone, I would experiment with my mother`s makeup. And wondered why I enjoyed doing that'¦ Wondered why I couldn`t carry a purse,

- Deborah Roberts

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

- Douglas Adams

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

- Frances Farmer

For the last 5,326 days, I have wondered what it would be like to confront the walking cesspool that took my mother`s precious life.

- Jeff Davis

(about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)) I got this movie while I was still shooting Cadillac Man (1990) and had to fly off to North Carolina on the weekends. Everyone wondered what kind of strange movie I was off doing. Only Robin (Robin Williams) had heard of the Ninja Turtles. He had collected all of the comic books and couldn`t wait to see the movie. He brought his kids to the premiere and surprised me. The movie ended up being a big hit. I still have a hard time watching that movie . . . I was never satisfied with how it came out. It lost a lot of its soul. Elias Koteas, however, was brilliant.

- Judith Hoag

My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.

- Kim Hunter

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God`s plan for my life.

- Lawrence Welk

I`ve been a NASCAR fan since the mid-`90s and I always wondered why there wasn`t more of an effort to do things for women who love the sport. I`ve been amazed at how warmly I`ve been received by female racing fans.

- Pamela Britton

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

- Phil Donahue

I`ve often wondered, when they`ve done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I`ve seen it, how they did that gun thing. I`ve watched it on stage, but I don`t remember it.

- Ray Walston

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

- Edie Falco

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

- Isabelle Huppert

I`m very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

- Ike Turner

How could you take his life away (What made you think you had the right?)/ How could you be so full of hate (To take away somebody`s life?)/ When I heard you let him die and leave the world, I wondered why/ I sat and home and on my own, I cried alone and scratched your name in the side of a bullet.

- Chad Kroeger

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

- Elliott Smith

I wondered about the availability of porn everywhere and how it affected what they thought about sex, what it was, what influence it had.

- Larry Clark

Then, once you got there, you just hoped someone hadn`t ripped the article out of the journal that you needed. We wondered if libraries would be used less with the Internet. But it became obvious that, if we adapted to students` needs, they would come as much or more than they always did.

- Bill Miller

I always wondered who those people were,

- Chuck Cooper

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You`ve got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

- Michael Novak

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

- Marcus Aurelius

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on.

- Michael Ende

It`s been difficult, and without a question I`ve had moments when I just wondered whether we`re not really pursuing an impossible ideal.

- Wole Soyinka

Sometimes I`ve looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn`t look better as a hat.

- Janet Street-Porter

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

- Joseph Wambaugh

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

- David Icke

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

- Corazon Aquino