Quotes About Desire

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your pride to really go after what you want.

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Oh God, don't let me go on Amazon Prime at one in the morning 'cause I always buy something I don't need.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Sadly, I've never met Princess Kate.

Sometimes I think I made a big mistake by not paying more attention to Prince Axel. He was looking for a wife and genuinely cared for me. Well, he had the hots for me is more like it. I would have made a great princess.

Many students want their privacy.

I wanted my private life to be private. I just wanted to be a fighter.

I wanted to be able to play music, and then when I went out in my private life, my personal life, I didn't want to be famous.

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.