You have to stand out if you want to move up.
I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.
I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.
I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.
When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'
We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward.
I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.
I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.
One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.
We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
