Wanting Quotes

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman

Good, Great, Enough

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Good, Wait

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
Peter Singer

Away, Realize, Interest

Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the biggest and best step that you can take. Instead of putting your ego first, you put the buyer first. And I think that that's a really important thing just to know what the consumer is wanting to wear.
Jessica Simpson

Best, Important, Ego

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ambition, Succeed, Attention

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.
Norah Jones

Cool, Trying, Thought

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.
Eric Bana

Stupid, Hurting, Kid

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.
Brittany Murphy

Place, Show, Memories

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
Heath Ledger

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
Lena Dunham

Family, Great, Husband

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
John Cusack

Why, Acting, Else

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Reese Witherspoon

Great, Energy, Perfection

If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
Luke Scott

Crazy, Help, Person

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
Jo Brand

Style, Bit, Cause

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Patti Smith

Wanted, Artist, Star

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.
Twyla Tharp

Work, Feelings, Thoughts

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
Jim DeMint

Off, Themselves, Washington

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
George A. Sheehan

Change, Power, Person

I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
Rand Paul

America, Weapons, Attack

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.
Christopher Nolan

Morning, Character, Live

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin

Life, Art, Character

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
Liz Phair

Women, Nothing, Wrong

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Political, Writing, Before

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Movies, Blame, Understand

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
Samantha Morton

Dreams, Best, Else

At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
Jeffrey Kluger

Fear, Alone, Deep

I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
Vera Farmiga

Life, Love, Good

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
Sloane Crosley

Attention, Artists, Package

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

Powerful, Fright

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell

Love, Friendship, Two

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