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One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while.

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.

Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

You have to be precise. You have to be specific, but you want to be accurate. That is first and foremost. You want to be on top of the story, but words do matter.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I want to be an icon.

I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

We have a policy at The New Yorker, .. That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.

I don't want people to know me. I want them to believe my version.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.

I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.

I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going to have to spend a lot more time on it.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.