'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet.
I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.
We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.
I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I'm not really recognized as a full citizen?
I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.
A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it.
I wish I had a filter; then, I'd suspect, who knows? I'd perhaps have more friends.
Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.
I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'
