Quotes About Desire

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?"

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

What." Oh, for God's sake. "Fine. Why wouldn't it ever work out?" "Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally… in love with you." Qhuinn's mouth dropped open.

A dream is a feeling that sticks - and propels.

I always wanted to eat with a Negro," Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman," Lula said. "So I guess this works out good.

What I like to do and what I have to do are two separate things. I like to read, swim, watch TV, spend time with my family. But I have to work, so I do that.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

My strategy has always been to give people just enough of me, then pull back. That way, they'll want more.

I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.

There is a general impression that if a man has a sexy wife or girlfriend, he won't stray. Men don't need a reason to stray - they do it anyway.

I have a competitive streak.

One thing that's hard for me to resist is street food. I know it is the unhealthiest option, but even with all the oil, nothing can beat tikkis.

Acting was something I always really wanted to do and, when I left school and was old enough to get an agent, 'Coronation Street' was, like, the thing to get into.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

This inner strength we have, this desire to evolve and expand and explore, I do love that about humanity. At the same time, it's scary what it does on a global scale. I'm very much caught between the two.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.