Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Seymour Hoffman

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have to have a personal connection. You have to really want to do it, because if you don't, investing yourself personally, your thoughts, your emotions, yourself into a part, is something you're not going to want to do as much.

Philip Johnson

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Pharrell Williams

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

Pharrell Williams

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

Peter Cushing

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

Peter Drucker

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Peter Drucker

If you want to know what the future is, be part of its development.

Peter Drucker

If you want to predict the future create it.

Peter B. Lewis

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Peg Bracken

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Peggy Noonan

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Paulo Coelho

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

Paulo Coelho

Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

Paulo Coelho

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Paulo Coelho

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

Paulo Coelho

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

Martin Scorsese

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

Marlon Wayans

I want to be believable in anything I take on.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

Marissa Mayer

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Marissa Mayer

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Mariska Hargitay

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Marjane Satrapi

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Mariano Rivera

I always take time for somebody who wants to talk to me.

Maria Sharapova

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

Meghan O'Rourke

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

Megyn Price

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

Shayne Ward

I've always wanted to act.

Sherry Stringfield

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Sherry Argov

You always want what you can’t have.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)