Wanting Quotes

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Once you are successful, there's a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of 'Spirit' I felt like I didn't want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

Women may give lip service to wanting husbands who take on an equal role in raising children, but many will pull rank when an important decision, like how to discipline or what baby sitter to hire, has to be made.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.