I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
What is it that keeps you so interested in the telomere? It's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works.
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
The statists want to control the economy.
I just want to complete my legacy.
We get so many requests like, 'We want behind-the-scenes access,' or 'We're going to show people what it's really like to be on the campaign with Donald Trump.' But there is just no way that a camera or an episode or a documentary could capture what has gone on.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'
My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.
I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.
You should want to give something back.
Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.
People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.
We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.
Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is our cause. Our country needs your ideas, energy, and passion. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America. We wrote it together - now let's go out and make it happen together.
I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.
