Quotes About Desire

If you ask across the section of farmers in the country how many of them want their children to go into farming, believe me, it is less than 10 per cent. Nobody wants their children to go into farming.

Obviously, as long as I enjoy it, I'm fit, and have the desire to work 100 per cent every day with the same motivation, then I want to play.

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

When you are young, love happens easily; at least, that's how you perceive it. You fall for the person if you get a little bit of attention.

I don't care about perception I care about cars, girls & money.

The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

I've always wanted a perfect life.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.

I'd like to get up and instantly have perfectly blow-dried hair.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

I wish I could have performed with Jeff Buckley, but I missed my chance.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

I got the performing itch.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong passion and love for someone or something that your heart just can't let it go. Whether it's a special boy, girl, or that feeling you get when performing on stage or playing a sport. For me, my passion is music. I just can't let it go!