Want Me Quotes - Page 9

• I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Fabulous, Just Smile

  "Rosario Dawson Acts Up". Interview With Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2011.

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• Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Uprising, Want, Everglades

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

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• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  David Duchovny

  Ideas, Sound, Needs

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• I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Nuts, Play, Ties

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• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

  Unknown

  Father, Son, Night

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• When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

  Lady Gaga

  Eye, Soul, Fans

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• Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?

  Ethan Hawke

  Falling In Love, People, Want

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• If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Mistake, Play, Dynamics

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• Pot advocates actually try to convince people who don't need or want medical marijuana to go get a card, because as those numbers go up, it's like voting for an initiative. It's saying "There are this many people who want to use this who are not getting in trouble, who are not turning around and selling it or giving it to minors." No matter what they have - cancer, HIV, depression - anybody who says they feel better after smoking marijuana, I feel they should be able to do so, especially if it's in the privacy of their own home.

  Doug Benson

  Cancer, Home, Feel Better

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Like I said, I'm just grateful when anyone offers me a job. It's like, "Okay. I'll do it." FBI agent is one, too, when you get older. When you're kind of an older lady hard-ass, FBI tends to happen. It's just because I'd like to work rather than not work, so I'm just happy if somebody wants me to do anything.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Grateful, Kind, Fbi

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• I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

  Jim Carrey

  Want, Audience, Loses

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• I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Cain: I don't remember Bialek" by Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

  Criss Angel

  Life, Thinking, Artist

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• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  Adam Ant

  People, Three, Records

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• I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'

  Fred Armisen

  Missing, Soldier, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Party, Winning

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.15, Penguin

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• I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Fun, Directors, Watches

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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  Yogi Berra

  Guy, Ems, Hey

  "Yogi Berra: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2015.

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• My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

  Mary J. Blige

  Block, Bling, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

  Kobe Bryant

  Team, Athlete, Trying

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• I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mom, Mother, Want

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• My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dad, Kids, Son

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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• If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Christmas, Song, Feelings

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• I never stop working, I never stop creating. And I never sit around and wait for the industry to need me. I force the industry to want me by continuously creating what I do. And in this age of airplanes and Internet, it's not about where you are, it's more about what you do. But I travel every single day.

  Sharon Needles

  Airplane, Waiting, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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