Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

Gore Vidal

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

Gore Vidal

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Gore Vidal

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Gore Vidal

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

Gina Lollobrigida

I want to leave a souvenir of my life.

Gillian Jacobs

No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.

Gillian Jacobs

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

Gillian Jacobs

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

Gianni Versace

I want to be a designer for my time.

Giancarlo Esposito

I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story.

Gerhard Richter

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Harvey Milk

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

Harold Washington

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

Harold Prince

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

Harold Ramis

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

James Dean

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

James Broughton

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

James Brown

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

Jalal Talabani

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

Jamaica Kincaid

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

Jamaica Kincaid

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Jaime Winstone

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

Jackie DeShannon

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

Jackie Cooper

So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

Jackie Chan

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

Jackie Chan

I want to show audiences I can act.

Jackie Chan

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Jackie Chan

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

James Garner

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

James Gandolfini

I want nothing to do with privilege.

Jennie Finch

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.