Quotes About Desire

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.

I want to win so bad, but I think I've had too much of that lore for attraction that you'll do anything possible to get it. Sometimes people are there at a good time and kind of stumble upon it. Right time, right place type thing. I just want to keep working toward it with my mind and my body.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

My all time dream match has always been AJ Styles.

I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.

I truly believe the reason why there is a demand for rom-coms is because humans, whether its conscious or subconscious, have a need to feel happy and to see love.

To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I have been wanting to do a substantial role for quite sometime.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.