Quotes About Desire

I've always had a passion for dancing, and I wasn't lucky enough to go to stage school, so when I got onto the show, I was like a kid in a sweet shop. I went into it just to have fun. The support was overwhelming, to say the least. It wasn't until the end of the show that I realised how much I really wanted to win it.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.

I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too - you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

We always try to go back to character: What do they want? What are they doing? What's in motion that they're dealing with? When things get particularly heavy, we will take a step back and look at who has some room to have some things lighter, funnier, or sweeter happen.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

I always wanted to swim the Channel, which is insane.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

Switching languages is a form of conversion. And like all conversions, whether it's judged a failure or a success, it excites the desire to leave, go elsewhere, adopt a new language and start all over again. It also means that a conscious effort is demanded to remain still.

I have a piece of land in Delhi, but I have never had enough money to support dual establishments. I always thought of owning a house in Delhi as well. When you go to London or Switzerland, you dream of having a house even there. But you cannot have everything. I have a plot in Delhi, so I think I should have a house here as well.

I'd really like to go Sydney. I've been to Australia a few times, but I have never been there.

I sometimes wish I had a good 'one syllable, one syllable' name, like Brad Pitt.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.