Wants Quotes

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.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Give the lady what she wants!

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.

The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

The right can distort anything it wants.