I Want Quotes

People say many things, but at the end of the day people can say what they want.

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

Life is never going to be perfect, as much as we want it to be, and I have to lead by example.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

If I'm excited by something bodily, and curious about it, I generally want to delve into it and explore it with poetry. That's the way I ordinarily watch the world around me.

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put it down, I thought, if this is what novels are then I want to be a novelist.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive, and then just smile for a while about them.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.