Desire quotes

“I'm tired of living without really living. I'm tired of wanting things. We can't have a lot of things. But we could have this.”
Cole Sprouse - Will

“Don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.”

Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“I don’t understand why humans waste so much time resisting their desires. A rehabilitation center for drugs and sex.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.”
Richard Madden

“He took me to a private sitting room, ordered food. But... he had changed. He was full of smiles and caresses, but... I knew at once that he was insincere. I saw that I had been... an amusement for him. Nothing more. I saw all this within... five minutes of our meeting. Yet I stayed.”

Meryl Streep - Sarah

“When people say they want to be rich and famous, just try rich and see if that doesn't get most of it for you.”
Bill Murray

“Reality is fabricated out of desire.”
Man Ray

“Sometimes it seems to me that the difference between what we want and what we fear is the width of an eyelash.”
Dame Judi Dench - Evelyn Greenslade

“All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.”
Lily Tomlin

“What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.”
Kevin Spacey - David Gale

“- Supermodel: You're not afraid of catching germs? And you know, I'm coming down with a cold and everything...
- Lee Simon: From you I'd be willing to catch terminal cancer.”
Charlize Theron - Supermodel
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Lee Simon

“- Nicholas Devereaux: Tell me your greatest desires.
- Mia Thermopolis: Tell me a secret.
- Nicholas Devereaux: Isn't that the same thing?
- Mia Thermopolis: Almost, but anyone can see your desires. No one knows what's in your heart.”
Chris Pine - Nicholas Devereaux
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis

“Who can deny the heart that is yearning?”
Jerry Seinfeld - Barry B. Benson

“- Joan Carlyle: You can't do this, Case. You're giving up on your dream.
- Casey Carlyle: No, Mom. I'm giving up on your dream. I'm going after mine.”

Joan Cusack - Joan Carlyle
Michelle Trachtenberg - Casey Carlyle

“No, what you've done is taken God's oldest killing machine and given it will and desire. What you've done is knocked us all the way to the bottom of the goddamn food chain. It's not a great leap forward in my book.”

Thomas Jane - Carter Blake

“Sex? I can't even say the word... not that I was ever really into it, but... when you don't have any and there are no prospects, well, it's very upsetting!”
Diane Keaton - J.C. Wiatt

“They want me to close her down, run her out of town. How can I ask her to leave when all I want her to do is stay?”

Burt Reynolds - Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd

“- Melvin Udall: You make me want to be a better man.
- Carol Connelly: ...That's maybe the best compliment of my life.
- Melvin Udall: Well, maybe I overshot a little, because I was aiming at just enough to keep you from walking out.”
Jack Nicholson - Melvin Udall
Helen Hunt - Carol Connelly

“- Seymour Krelborn: You'd still like me even if I wasn't famous?
- Audrey: I'd still love you. All I ever wanted was you... and a sweet little house.”
Rick Moranis - Seymour Krelborn
Ellen Greene - Audrey

“You can't make someone want education.”
Imelda Staunton - Margaret Campbell

“You are everything I never knew I always wanted.”
Matthew Perry - Alex Whitman

“I only really work when I want to.”
Ned Beatty

“Wait all ya want, 'cause there's no end.”
Jack Plotnick - Accountant

“- Corinne Dufour: This is the Drax estate now. Everything you see belongs to Mr. Drax.
- James Bond: He owns a lot, doesn't he?
- Corinne Dufour: What he doesn't own, he doesn't want.”

Corinne Cléry - Corinne Dufour
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“It's hard wanting something, or someone, that you just can't have.”
Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison