I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.
I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.
I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.
If they want me I'd love to come back. I'm not going to play because I can, I'm going to play because I deserve it.
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?
Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
I want to be always actor.
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
I was very protective of my privacy. I didn't want people to write bad things about me that weren't true, because that's just not fair. Fifty percent of everything written about me is wrong.
I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.
You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
There is a difference between a military mission and the aspiration for the long-term plans for the country. What we want is a stable enough Afghanistan, able to look after its own security so we can leave without the fear of it imploding... But let's be clear - it's not going to be perfect.
As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.
When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.
It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.
The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.
I'm having the time of my life. I've never looked forward to going to work so much every day. I'm loving it; it's great. It's what I love to do and I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.
If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
My independent songs are actually about me, so if you really want to know me, listen to my songs and know what I have been through in my life.
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.
