Quotes About Desire

When I was young, all I wanted to do was go to nightclubs, drink, have fun and be unproductive.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

I experienced unrequited love early.

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

Nothing makes a woman more spiteful than unrequited love.

I know what it's like to be in unrequited love.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The more stories I told, the more I found I wanted to tell. There was always something left unsaid. I got hooked by my own impulse of 'Well, what's gonna happen next?'

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

I'm a person and an actor that's constantly unsatisfied. I'm always reaching for something higher.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn't help me get them until I was much older!