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I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

People really don't want handouts, that they want to make their own decisions.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

I was the No. 1 player coming into college and I want to be the No. 1 player heading into the NFL. That's definitely one of my goals.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.

If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.