Quotes About Desire

I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.

I didn't know how, I didn't know when, but I wanted to act. I wanted to be in films.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.

When you are winning and go to finals, you want to win the finals.

Everything else I've been able to enjoy, but a Finals game is something that I desperately want to do I want to feel that environment.

I want to retire and want to be able to live out my days financially secure. That's what everyone wants.

I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.

I'm working on just finding a boyfriend right now.

My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

To work in your first film, in your debut as a lead, to work with the finest artists of the country - who doesn't want to do that?

If you like someone, even if its 2 A.M. and you've just finished work, then you get that lovely feeling where you want to see them.

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens, it happens.' I really wanted a family. Although I didn't actually have my first child until I was 37, I always felt I'd get there.

Acting was my first love before music.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Modibo Maiga, Guy Demel and Momo Diame can't understand how you go fishing and chuck them back. They say, 'Bring it in, I'll eat it.'

Love is a competition. If you don't think so, then you're crazy, because why are you dressing up, why are you wearing those heels, why are you wearing that $400 perfume? Why are you shaving your chest and eating 40,000 egg whites?