“All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills”
Edie Falco (1963) American actress
Interview with Robin Finn for the New York Times (April 24, 2001).http://www.hwwilson.com/_home/bios/1999043105.htm
“All I ever wanted to do was act.”
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“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
“Lives to act, poor thing, it’s all he ever wanted out of life.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Rivers of London
Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 13, “London Bridge” (p. 280)
Context: “Except he’s dead,” I said.
“I know,” said Mr. Punch. “Isn’t the universe wonderful.”
“I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: Glorious is the risk! — καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying … Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die — no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live — this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.
“All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
Comment on his 'Early Sunday Morning' (1930) https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Early%20Sunday%20Morning <br class="br">1941 - 1967
“I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Fred Thompson (1942–2015) American politician and actor
(full quote in context) Asked why he had not done more debates, Thompson replied "Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time."
[Ryan Sager, The New York Sun, http://www.nysun.com/article/62678?page_no=3, Mr. Sunshine State, September 14, 2007, 2007-09-21]
