I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.
I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
I don't want to hear about my death.
My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.
You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.
I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
I can't say that I am a DVD junkie. I see most films that I want to see in the theater, and so most of my DVD-watching is catching up with the occasional movies that I missed or revisiting a film that I really care about, in which case I really want the extra channels, because it's a movie that I already love, and I want to know more about it.
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'
I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.
Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.
We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.
Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.
People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!
And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.
