Wants Quotes

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

No one wants to read a math book.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.