Emile Hirsch Quotes

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

All of those years, I felt like 'Heaven's Gate' was a beautiful, fantastically colored balloon tied to a string fastened to my wrist, so the balloon could never fly.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

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

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.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

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

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.