Wants Quotes

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Who wants to go to school and be asked for, like, 20 autographs?

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.