Quotes About Desire

I would love to do film in Spanish.

My idea is to return to Spanish football, I want to play for a big club in La Liga, that would be great for my career.

I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

We're a fast-moving, needy species.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.

That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

I love spending money. I always have.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

When I sit down to eat, the greatest spice of all is hunger.