- Cracking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Want Quotes
On desire, ambition and the pull of what we want.
These quotes cover a range of wants: professional ambitions, creative goals, and the pressure to keep meeting requests from others once some success arrives. For more on ambition, see our Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do more work behind the camera.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm telling an L.A. story, I want to tell a fresh L.A. story and show places that haven't been shown before.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
- Every Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love grocery shopping. It's one of my favorite things. I don't want to become an ordering-food-online person.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be able to go wherever I want to go, do whatever I want to do. I guard the material and the filmmaker.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want reviews to come the week the movie's opening and not a month before when they do you absolutely no good.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020