Jennifer Love Hewitt Quotes

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.

I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.

I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on.

I felt incomplete. I was always happy but I felt incomplete and that I needed to be pushing through.

There was definitely a time where I really didn't want to be in the public eye, or have people know who I was and then they knew what my last name was, and you know, I've battled with that a little bit.

There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.

In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared shirt and forest-green sash were not something I would have ever been caught wearing in front of my friends.

I had a lot of fear about coming out as a kid.

If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively.

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

We are the total of our longings.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

We are formed by what we desire

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

In very truth it is the unattained which gives zest to the commonplace and brims the cup of our daily life with keenest joy.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.