I Want Quotes

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

I think in places like Pennsylvania, there's folks who want our next president to talk like a hawk, but fly like a dove.

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don't need a new law.

When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody's going to say yes to you. Just don't ever say no to yourself, ever.

Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.

What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.

I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

When you make drama you are like Picasso. Drama is whatever you want it to be.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

I think there is too much attention on mentoring. If people want to be scientists, they will figure out how to do it. They need to figure it out by themselves.

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

I was actually qualified to be an art teacher, but I didn't want to teach.

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.