I Want Quotes

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I'm so lonely, so desperate. I'll give you whatever you want.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

Poland is a sovereign state. We want the same rights as all other EU countries. Nothing more, but nothing less, either.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!

If the right thing comes along and you get an opportunity to be a part of something you believe in, and you think it's cool and want to put your name on it, then you should.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

If you sincerely want to know if you're "going too far," don't ask yourself, "Is this bad?" Instead ask yourself, "Is this pure?"

If by how you dress, you are saying to guys, "Hey, look at my body," why would a guy want to get to know you?

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.