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Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

I dont want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I dont want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

You want a little talent on that?

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

If I want to put my tits on my back, it's nobody's business but my own.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

I want to start saying bad words all the time!

I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

I've always known I wanted a family.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.