Quotes About Desire

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

We fucked a flame into being.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.

Greed is an addiction. It's a machine that must constantly be fed.

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

You really couldn't do a PG version of 'Crossfire!' It just wouldn't work.

I've always thought of L.A. as the modern version of 'The Garden of Earthly Delights.'

I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

From a very early age, I wanted to fly aeroplanes.

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.

I honestly didn't always want kids - for a very long time, it just wasn't a path I saw myself on. I wasn't even sure I wanted to get married!

A very long time, I've wanted to be a mom. When we started this, we didn't know how it was going to end up.

I don't have relationships for a very long time. I'm famous so that gets in the way. They either really like the spotlight and having a trophy girlfriend or they will not really be crazy for it.

21st-century activism is different perhaps in the sense that the individual can be more present in the process, especially via social media, but the underlying drivers remain the same as desire to change the status quo.

I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'

I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'