Quotes About Desire

When I was five years old, I remember watching the opening of the Oscars with my mother and crying as I watched celebrities walk in on the red carpet. Why would any child cry watching the Oscars? For me, the reason was simple: I wanted to be there so badly that I burst into tears.

I remember watching 'Avengers 1' for the first time and thinking, 'God, one day I want to be in one of those movies.' I just want to be in the movie.

I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV.

I was a huge 'Charlie's Angels' fan when I was a little girl, and I can go back to sitting on my couch in Ottawa, Ontario, watching TV and thinking, 'How do I get to there from here, because that looks way better.'

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Growing up, I loved films like 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and became a huge fan of Marlon Brando.

I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.

I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.

I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.

I've always wanted to hit that, like, '13 Going on 30;' 'Failure to Launch,' Matthew McConaughey; 'What Happens in Vegas,' Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher' wave.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.