There’s times where you think, ‘Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?’ – Chelsea Handler
Being a popular director or actor’s son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it? – Anupam Kher
I don’t write historical novels but novels that wonder, ‘And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?’ – Alvaro Enrigue
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that’s exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them. – Andrew Ross Sorkin
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, ‘What if?’ – Caroline Leavitt
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. – Charles Spurgeon
Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, ‘What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line – we couldn’t have kids?’ – David Alpay
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism. – Mustafa Akyol
My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, ‘What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?’ That’s terrible habit for an actor, but that’s a good habit for director. So I became a director. – David Mamet
I’ve come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, ‘What if?’ – Ellen Klages
Well, I’m using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That’s life! – Dick Clark
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? – Muqtada al Sadr
What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be? – Nido Qubein
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever. – Chester Brown
If you’re going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What’s the answer? What’s Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I’m incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there’s always a what if. – Duff Goldman
What if someone created some sort of eyebrow pencil that was revolutionary and that was made specifically to help eyebrows look more realistic? – Michelle Phan
‘2016’ is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I’m not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion. – Dinesh D’Souza
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. – Kirk Douglas
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin? – Marilyn Monroe
What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell. – Jenifer Lewis
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive. – Jay Alan Sekulow
Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you’re terrible at ballet? Or what if you’re gifted at ballet, but you don’t like doing it? – Lisa Graff