The idea of accumulating ambitions or achievements didn’t get much further than wanting to do the next exciting thing. I really haven’t set out with any list of achievements.
My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I’d send away for movie magazines – the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.
Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she’s made and obviously wanting more. It’s classic.
It seems the most common thing for serial interventionists to do these days is to lob the term ‘isolationist’ at anyone who does not agree with their latest folly, and then set up a straw man about those people not wanting to be involved in the world.
In a general sense, I think it’s bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from the beauty of the mountains. But at the same time, I can’t blame the Nepali government – or the Indian, Pakistani or Chinese, depending on where you’re climbing – from wanting to capitalize on foreign climbers.
I didn’t set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn’t that kind of dream.
I think focusing limits you. As long as nothing that I’m doing suffers from my ADD in wanting to do everything, then I want to just keep doing everything. It keeps it fresh and fun.
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
I didn’t think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
I didn’t set out wanting to be an actress. That’s not what I did. I didn’t go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically – honestly, I didn’t have anything else going.
A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I’d finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, ‘It must be a good thing to fight for.’
I didn’t really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.
I’m always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they’re always wanting to participate in something, and I don’t often have that element in me.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
There is no pathway for female GB road cyclists, but at the same time, if you are wanting to be the best in the world, you have to forge your own pathway. It’s not that things should be there on a plate for you. You have to work really hard, and that’s what I’ve done, and I didn’t let it stop me.
I understand that it’s incredibly difficult to watch what’s happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I’ve fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.
I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember – to keep close, somehow – moments that made an impression on me.
I didn’t start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I don’t mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I’m not wanting for appreciation.
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.
You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it’s all kind of devices. So you’ve got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas… I’ve been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.
I’m a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that’s my next level. You’ve got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
I’m not a great student, so I don’t know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
I’m really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.
Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that’s what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. ‘It doesn’t have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.’
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that’s the reason they go off the deep end.
The part you don’t expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it’s hard and gruelling – the travelling, the meet-and-greets – it was too crazy.
There’s a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.
I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.
Consider trade protectionism. It’s been tried – and found wanting – since the Great Depression.
I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn’t a requisite part of the package.
There’s a time and place for everything. You’re younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
There’s nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
I don’t think I’ve ever made something that I’m totally satisfied with. That feeling of doubt, or wanting to do more, is my engine to move forward and make the next iteration.
Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
I was thinking about how we’re so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
In some ways it’s taken me decades to come clean and make honest work – and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
I think it all comes from the same source, really, the writing of music, the writing of words, the playing of music. It’s what drives anyone to be interested in the arts. I think it’s a poetic gene; it’s a wanting to go beyond.
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.
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, ‘You waited for your father to die; why couldn’t you have waited for me to die?’ I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn’t understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
