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Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?
It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.
When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.
I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.
I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.
When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.
I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.
The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.
