A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get it right.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

I always had that desire of being strong and being able to protect myself, being able to protect others.

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

I think 'astroturfing' goes against the conservative creed because it violates the desire we share to be self-sufficient, and this is understandable, something with which I agree.

I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other side of my career of being a Lothario.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

A lot of offensive rebounding is a lot of desire, a little bit positioning.

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.