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Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

I don't want to be so analytical of my own life, because if I start to be analytical of my own life, maybe I'll choose not to believe anything that's going on. But, the fact of the matter is, I've experienced both sides of it now. Sides where you have a great time with people on set, and then you do just step away. And it's not malicious. It's just that people go back and live their lives and do whatever.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one ever says, "I'm better." They say, "I wanna get better."

I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.