Bennett Miller Quotes

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I don't know how to play easy.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

It's difficult when you want it all.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.