What I Want Quotes

#1. If some actress thinks she is sexy and she can dance, it's her choice. I do what I want to do, and I set my own benchmark. I will never compare myself with anyone.

Preity Zinta

#2. I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

Christophe Lemaitre

#3. If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

Evangeline Lilly

#4. He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

Abbi Glines

#5. How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Kingsley Amis

#6. I've had a lot of support from every corner of my life and my audience, to pretty much do close to what I want. I don't have unlimited time or money to execute my wildest dreams but I have enough get up and go to keep me going.

Joel Plaskett

#7. I prefer being able to choose who I want to help or what I want to improve in the world by making a lot of money myself rather than just going out there and talking about things. If you have money to do things, it's much better than just talking about them.

Kim Dotcom

#8. I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

Holly Black

#9. What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Edith Evans

#10. Did you know that between the two of us, we have free will if and only if I do what you want, and you do what I want.

Marcia E. Letaw

#11. I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

Anne Frank

#12. Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. I ask for help. I tell Life what I want, and then I allow it to happen.

Louise Hay

#14. I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

R.J. Dennis

#15. I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

Samantha Shannon

#16. What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

Simon Birch

#17. You are going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt.

Jack Bauer

#18. You can come round to my flat." Toreth's voice changed, sliding subtly into something hard-edged but seductive. "I don't need chains to make you do what I want. I don't need anything. I can take whatever I want from you, however I want it, and you can't stop me.

Manna Francis

#19. If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]

Eric Metaxas

#20. Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.

Rumi

#21. My hope for AI and Facebook in the next decade is you can sit down and tell Facebook, 'This is what I want to hear about today.' Like, I'm having a bad day; I want to hear some good news. If we make our products better, more people will use it - people use it more. It's fairly easy to understand.

Mike Schroepfer

#22. My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

Gabriel Macht

#23. What have I earned from you, Valek? Loyalty? Respect? Trust?"
"You have my attention. But give me what I want, and you can have everything.

Maria V. Snyder

#24. You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.

Val McDermid

#25. What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me.

Ashley Mae Hoiland

#26. I know what I want to do, and it makes sense to get going.

Warren Buffett

#27. All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

Maxine

#28. What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words, and deeds is like that.

Dorothy Day

#29. The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

Norman Mailer

#30. I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Adele

#31. I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

Richard Chamberlain

#32. I want to know what I want. For in setting forth

Esther Hicks

#33. People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'

Mario Cuomo

#34. I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, if it isn't stylish to make all that happen then it isn't truthfully worth listening to.

Malcolm McLaren

#35. I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.

Pat Cadigan

#36. I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe)

Rex Stout

#37. As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Victoria Chang

#38. Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

Joan Jett

#39. I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

Georgia Salpa

#40. Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.

Melanie Benjamin

#41. For me, every photograph is a portrait; the clothes are just a vehicle for what I want to say. You're photographing a relationship with the person you're shooting; there's an exchange, and that's what that picture is.

Peter Lindbergh

#42. When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Alan Perlis

#43. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

Christina Dodd

#44. I like giving you what you want."
"You're what I want. All of you.

Lauren Blakely

#45. Oh gods, Jane, the answer to all those questions is you. You turn me on; you're what I want; you make me growl.

Nicole Peeler

#46. What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

Joseph M. Juran

#47. Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.

Stuart Wilde

#48. Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

Eddie Van Halen

#49. Life, wherever it reveals itself; truth, no matter how bitter; bold, sincere speech with people - these are my leaven, these are what I want, this is where I am afraid of missing the mark.

Modest Mussorgsky

#50. I feel very blessed to have a partner in life who supports me, who is enthusiastic about what I want to do, who has been a great father, and who will be a fabulous grandfather.

Hillary Clinton

#51. I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

Heath Ledger

#52. I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.

Anton Du Beke

#53. I've done a few things on the side here and there, but there is not much reason to do so in a sustained way. I'm generally able to say what I want to say within the context of Weezer.

Rivers Cuomo

#54. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Eminem

#55. Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

Scott McClellan

#56. I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.

Na Hae Ryeong

#57. I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

Natasha Bedingfield

#58. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.

Pepper Winters

#59. I know what I want from life and I'm grateful for the blessings I have.

D.D. Prince

#60. The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.

Michael Caine

#61. I know why you did. That's what I want for you...to have the things you deserve. I want you to have that, and not feel guilty about how you got it. You told me the truth. You don't have to give me poetry to ease the blow.

Alexandra Bracken

#62. I am everything what u see and I can be anything what I want to be.

Nandini Sharma

#63. Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

Zoe Tapper

#64. I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Eric Cantona

#65. That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

Picabo Street

#66. Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

Joe Satriani

#67. I tried to take it slow, give you time to wrap your head around this. But I'm done playing nice... I'm taking what I want. I'm taking what's mine," he growled harshly behind my ear.

J.C. Grant

#68. Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing what I want means giving up some pleasures for other pleasures.

Adam Phillips

#69. It's simple, Grey. I'm a spoiled brat. I've always gotten what I want. Always. And I want you all to myself. I don't want you working there anymore, and I knew you'd fight me on it, so I took the fight away from you. I don't care how much it costs, I have to have you all to myself.

Jasinda Wilder

#70. That's what I need to figure out. I need to figure out who I am. What I want.

Lili Wilkinson

#71. Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.

John Congleton

#72. So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.

Stephen Chbosky

#73. In other words, I look through my eyes and see only a version of the world, a version that can be, and often is, colored or twisted by what I want to see. Another person may witness the same events, and yet observe something entirely different.

David Brin

#74. I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.

Tricia Levenseller

#75. I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Gil Gerard

#76. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

Erin Morgenstern

#77. I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Sally Pearson

#78. I don't know what I want, except that I don't want to give up yet.

Cassandra Clare

#79. I feel...I don't know...like a bottle of soda that's been shaken up. Do you know what I want? I want you to take me inside, and then take the cap off.

Stephen King

#80. I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'

Marv Levy

#81. Drama is not my passion. If I do it, it's for a check. It's not what I want to do. Comedy's my thing. Stand up's my thing. Everything that comes from that is frosting on the cake.

Gabriel Iglesias

#82. I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

Kiana Tom

#83. I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already.

Kelly Moran

#84. Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

Charles Dickens

#85. What I want to do is to teach a lesson to all these people ... I want [to prove] that the Devil exists, that the Devil reigns supreme, that the power he enjoyed in the Middle Ages has not been taken from him, for today he is the absolute master of the world.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#86. My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

Wong Kar-Wai

#87. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#88. I am thinking more and more about what I want to and can do after my days as an active athlete. Thoughts like family and marriage also cross my mind more and more often.

Roger Federer

#89. So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

Jackie Cooper

#90. I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

Daya

#91. JUSTICE: I'm a woman, d*mmit. I do what I want, and I refuse to consider the consequences.

Bijou Hunter

#92. Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.

Michael Jackson

#93. Quite often, when I describe to people what I want, I'll say "overwhelming" - I want it to feel like it's phy

Anna Meredith

#94. One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

Lou Reed

#95. I want to be hurt. I want to be in so much pain that I can't think and I can't remember why. That's what I want. That's all I want.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#96. A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Patrick Ness

#97. That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say.

Lil' Wayne

#98. ...I'd like to know what you want out of life."
"I don't know what I want anymore." I toyed with the delicate lace on my pillowcase, wishing that lovely things didn't have to be so fragile.

Anita Higman

#99. I'm gone for eight months ... If you feel that it's critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution.

Bob Davids

#100. Eventually,we would mean nothing to each other and become strangers again. What I want you to do, either become someone to me or stay nothing at all because when we go strangers to each other, I don't wanna see another me by your side waiting to be nothing..

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