If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?
My very first records, I was very interested in how you get the particular quality you want out of it, and I began to learn about the engineering and aspects of production and things very early on. I got hands-on with the process and taught myself how to engineer, as opposed to just being a producer who asked the engineer to make it sound nice.
Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?
I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.
I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.
If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
I see my real job now as - never mind 'The Office,' 'Extras,' film career, Emmys - I want everyone in the world to know who Karl Pilkington is.
We do not attract what we want, but what we are.
I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect - no, demand - no less for myself.
I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when you're a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.
If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!
I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.
I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.
So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.
The most important thing as a conductor is that you have to want it. People will give you a million reasons why you shouldn't.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
'Saw' really came from that want, the aspiration to make a feature film on our own.
If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
