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It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.

I believe if you want to build up to something, you have to start somewhere - you have to start today and maybe tomorrow won't exist.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~

I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.

I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

If you want to be happy, you will be.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.