top of page

"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

17

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."

Exlpore more Want quotes

"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Explore more quotes by Robin Wright Penn

"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."

"I just love getting dirty."

"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."

"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."

Work, Sex, People, Being

"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."

"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."

Choice, Choices

"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."

Faith, Confidence, Hollywood, Walking

"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom."

"It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part."

"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."

Imagination, Nothing

bottom of page