#want

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien! ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #considered #first #i #jackson

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#black #comedy #explain #first #had

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#engagement #express #feel #i #i feel

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#anyway #by the time #common #i #me

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter. ↗

— Dawn French

#dench #i #judi #play #sister

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #die #even #wants #worst

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#as far as #concerned #does #far #flesh

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. ↗

— David Friedman

#company #created #i #my own #nancy