You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
I want challenges that really test me, very difficult ones. I was the same as a kid: when you play with players your own age, it doesn't bring out your best.
I want to be cutting-edge.
I've never known how to censor myself. I say what I want at any time.
As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes.
I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
All I want to do is sing on other people's records.
People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
When people are making the decision to put a piece of content online, they really do truly want to get it in front of the largest audience.
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album.
The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.
As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character.
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.
