'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

- Aidan Gillen

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

- Bob Geldof

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

I did a film in which Andy Garcia and Michael Keaton both played the leads, 'Desperate Measures,' and interestingly enough it was their biggest payday. The film didn't do well, and it kind of marked their careers. They've done less since. It all changed.

- Brian Cox

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

- Al Purdy

I became very attentive to customers because I was desperate not to have people leave and never come back.

- Andrew Cherng

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

- Angela Lansbury

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

- Andre Breton

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.

- A. B. Yehoshua

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

- Augusten Burroughs

Sequels are desperate.

- Adam McKay

If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

- Adam Mansbach

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

- Ayelet Waldman

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

- Athol Fugard

Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This lot has a desperate yearning to reconnect. They want to consume mythology but in a well-packaged and easily digestible way.

- Ashwin Sanghi

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

- Anne Hathaway

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

- Alice Miller

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

- Alex Berenson

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

- Alan Moore

People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.

- Adam Driver