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When I hear the words "social responsibility," I want to reach for my gun.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

I could never be Charlie Chaplin. But the films that were made by people like him, or Gene Wilder, or John Candy, the people that inspired me so much were the people that were able to combine humor with heartbreak so beautifully and fluidly. Those films I think were what inspired me to want to come to L.A. and audition for movies.

Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

I want the part of you that you refuse to give.

What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

The public always wants to be told.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.