You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.
I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.
We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.
I want to be relatable. I want to be the guy that people root for.
I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn't want to be in makeup for four hours a day.
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.
I like people to have their own reaction and their own take on things. And I don't like to shove my - what I want them to feel or think - down their throats. I like people to say, 'What was that about?' or 'Why did that happen?' And so, any reactions are welcome.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
What I want is to be the highest grossing screenwriter, or to have some other woman be the highest grossing screenwriter, instead of being number nine on the list. That's my goal.
It's not a good feeling when you get booed. But I don't want to be good because somebody booed me. I want to be great player because that's the way I am.
My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.
Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.
I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.
I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
