What People Want Quotes

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

In the end, money should serve something greater than just money. It should serve you, your family, the people you want to touch.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

I hate saying, 'I like exercising.' I want to punch people who say that in the face.

If someone gives you $1,000,000 you'd better become a millionaire so you can keep the money. Success doesn't want to hang around incompetent people.

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

If you write for yourself, you'll reach all the people you want to write for.

I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

All people want to be touched.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

Real people do what they want...not what they can.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Treat other people the way you want to be treated. Most people won't do that because it makes them vulnerable.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.