Quotes About Desire

I would love to start if a coach considered me as a starter.

I obviously want to be a starter.

Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.

I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

The appetite starts with the eye.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Satisfaction isn't a state that comes easily to me.

Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what's going on there.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion.