Wants Quotes

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

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

People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention. Everywhere you go, you know?

At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.