What Do We Want Quotes

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.

I'll continue to carry out whatever we are committed to. Whatever we believe leads us to a permanent solution the way we want it, the way I want it.

We don't have a particular organization, but we all want to make a world in which justice is given to each one of us.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.

I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.

It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It's a way to connect with fans that wasn't available just a few years ago.

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

The people who put limits on your abilities, goals, or dreams, may not be the people you want to associate yourself with.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

Things rarely turn out the way we want them to.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Every morning or afternoon, whenever you want to write, you have to go up and shoot that old bear under your desk between the eyes.