Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life’s time to both.

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven’t gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

The hard thing isn’t getting what you want, it’s knowing what you want.

It’s the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it’s clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you’re telling these stories you can’t throw these people together immediately.

I’m still an actor who wants to work all the time.

Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

Well, if you can’t have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

The world wants to like America.

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Dating isn’t a natural need; it is a social want.

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they’re just going to have to go hungry.

Whereas there’s a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone’s got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there’s not so much competition.

I don’t know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I believe it’s a woman’s right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can’t she also wear everything?

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

I think that it’s important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn’t have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

I’m a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

I don’t think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

You will know those who love you, when you are in need.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it’s their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don’t think that’s what anybody really wants, especially if you’re not good at it.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

People will say, ‘Just one picture please.’ That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say ‘No’ I feel guilty.

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn’t want to be backstage, warming up.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

I’m tolerant of all religions… I don’t care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America’s sweetheart.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world – its economic, military position, as well as America’s influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He’s actually the architect of it.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I’m on his errand.

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.

If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it.If you don’t know what you deserve, you’ll always settle for less.You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

If you’re a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they’re checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that’s only a minute long.

It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

When people give you a writing assignment, they’re asking what you think. That’s the very opposite of being an actor. When you’re an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

Because I’m short and slim, I can identify with somebody who’s an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief...

You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they’re wants.