Quotes About Yearning

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina, weird and pudgy, without too many other kids to play with. I spent a lot of time watching TV. It was my reassurance that the outside world was bigger and more colorful than the one I lived in.

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.

I want to play basketball so bad.

I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

I'm tired of not being in the playoffs... I hate watching them on TV.

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

I'm often compared to Alan Rickman. I wish.

Every match I watch will be bittersweet. It will always hurt, I'll always miss competing. That's what I've done my whole life and that burning desire is not just going to leave me.

Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

I grew up in Connecticut - it was really charming, but when I was younger, all I wanted was to get out.

I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.

Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.