Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
I'm such a sucker for love and I believe in it and I always want it to win.
Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty, even though poverty exists all over the country, and exists as much in urban areas as it does in rural, if not more.
I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.
When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.
If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.
I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.
I don't want to be an old dad.
I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."
Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Insurance companies don't necessarily want to invest in your wellnes because you're likely to switch insurance companies within 10 years. They don't benefit from their investment in you.
They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.
Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.
I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.