Top 100 Really Want Something Quotes
#1. Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Homer Simpson
#2. Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
Joel Rosenberg
#3. There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.
Paulo Coelho
#4. Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
Harlan Coben
#5. If you really want something ..
Nothing can stop you ..
It's about nothing except you !
Gehad Badr
#6. If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
#7. If you really want something, you'll make it work.
Rita Ora
#8. If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.
Brian Kobilka
#9. Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.
Robin Leach
#10. If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.
Jane Goodall
#11. If you really want something, you should stop until you get it, no matter what you have to do.
Priscilla Glenn
#12. Rejection is just a test to see how much you really want something.
Kristy Brown
#13. Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.
Ilchi Lee
#14. I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.
Marc Maron
#15. If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.
Jerry Only
#16. If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
R.J. Palacio
#17. Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
Paulo Coelho
#18. It was tangible and real, close enough to allow me to dream of moving back to North Carolina; on the other hand, it unfortunately made time slow down. Isn't that the way it always is when you really want something?
Nicholas Sparks
#19. If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.
Marlon Wayans
#20. When you really want something deeply and take massive action, you can achieve wonders.
Amey Hegde
#21. I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
Picabo Street
#22. Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.
Laura Resau
#23. When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it
Paulo Coelho
#24. When I look at you, I see something I really want. Something I need." All
Mia Asher
#25. When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.
Paulo Coelho
#26. When you really want something, you will give up a million times, but your heart keeps taking you back to the starting line.
Shannon L. Alder
#27. A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.
Paul Downs Colaizzo
#28. Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.
Ryan Cabrera
#29. The boy thought it a strange question. But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.
Matt Dillon
#31. If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.
Aesop
#32. Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
Norah O'Donnell
#33. When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the law that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.
Bob Proctor
#34. People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.
Bob Lefsetz
#35. I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.
Bethany Mota
#36. The Green Arrow stuff that I've responded to from the past is the Mike Grell stuff. I've liked a lot of other stuff, but I think for me, the direction and the mood and the tone that I really want is something much darker and more aggressive and really fast-paced action.
Jeff Lemire
#37. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Amanda Borden
#38. It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.
Tom Stoppard
#39. I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.
Tom Ford
#40. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
Evelyn Waugh
#41. Before you take the leap, before you jump, really make sure it's going to be something you want to get out of bed [to do] everyday, because it is so hard. So you want to make sure that you're really committed.
Alexa Von Tobel
#42. Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.
Louis Leterrier
#44. What gets made that's considered for men - it's really just T&A stuff. It's not stuff than any guy I know really wants to watch, you know, the stuff with jiggling boobs and all that. Something with real sort of male themes and male strength and things I want to watch in a drama.
Edward Allen Bernero
#45. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
Kiefer Sutherland
#46. Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.
Phil McGraw
#47. If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
Annie Lennox
#48. Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.
Elisabeth Shue
#49. Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg
#50. Buy what you don't have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Karl Lagerfeld
#51. I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco
#52. Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C.S. Lewis
#53. I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.
Gary Coleman
#54. I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
FKA Twigs
#55. The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
Astro Teller
#56. Come on guys, let's be serious. If you really want to do something, don't just 'like' this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something" [Mustafa Nayyem quoted in Chrystia Freeland, "Euromaidan, Kiev: A Place Becomes A Movement"].
Catie Marron
#57. If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.
Jonathan D. Spence
#58. Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.
Michael B. Jordan
#59. The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.
Valentina
#60. If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.
Douglas Adams
#61. Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
Donnie Yen
#62. I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."
Laurie Anderson
#63. If you want something, get it. If you like someone, show it. If your sad, cry. Happy, smile. no point in hiding things and pretending to be one thing when your really another.
Marilyn Grey
#64. I'm actually a very dark person, so I really want to get into some really dark roles, maybe some thrillers. I've never done one of those, so I think I'd really want to get into that, but definitely something that would get lots of people talking.
Cierra Ramirez
#65. I've always told people that to be successful you have to enjoy what you're doing and right now I really enjoy what I'm doing. I'm having too much fun with my life. Why would I want to do something else? Why would I want to run for governor?
Donald Trump
#66. Wanting to want something isn't the same as wanting it. I suppose what I really wanted, then, was to give more of a shit, because about certain things, I simply did not.
Augusten Burroughs
#67. Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
David Zucker
#68. I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.
Maria Bello
#69. Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.
Scott Snyder
#70. When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.
Robert Pattinson
#71. Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.
Tavi Gevinson
#72. I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
Emily Blunt
#73. If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.
Christopher Paolini
#74. I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.
Diablo Cody
#75. Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'
Jillian Rose Reed
#76. I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.
Danielle Panabaker
#77. Because it takes work, often a lot of work and sacrifice, you have to really want to bring something into being.
M.J. Ryan
#78. I don't really have an allowance. When I want to get something I just have to ask my mom.
Justin Bieber
#79. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.
Alden Ehrenreich
#80. I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
Elizabeth Peyton
#81. Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.
Stacy Peralta
#82. Did you ever think you had all the answers when you were in the thick of something, but then when you take a step back, you realize you were so busy getting things done that you never stopped to ask yourself if it's what you really want to do?
Jana Deleon
#83. This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris Dement
#84. You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.
Catherine Hardwicke
#85. The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.
Mark Romanek
#86. It's really how you deal with people. Do people respect you? Are you honest with people even if it's something they don't want to hear? Anyone in Hollywood will tell you I'm extremely up front and honest almost to a fault.
Ving Rhames
#87. But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around?
Philip Beard
#88. I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#89. Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
Pablo Schreiber
#90. I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.
Adam Ant
#91. If you actually want something and are really passionate about it, you will get it no matter what.
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#92. I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.
David Shrigley
#93. You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.
Thia Megia
#94. I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
Tom Ford
#95. If there's someone that I just wan to work with in the future, I set a general meeting and I say, "I'm a really big fan. I want to meet you. I'd love to collaborate with you someday and hopefully you'll remember that for the next time you have something that I could be right for."
Hilary Swank
#96. I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.
Billie Joe Armstrong
#97. If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.
Lamar Odom
#98. Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
Mark Morris
#99. Is the alcohol really just making me stupid, or it bringing out something inside of me that I don't want to believe is there
J.A. Redmerski
#100. I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Tim Gane
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