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I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about

I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

A fan can be able to say what he wants, do what he wants - he pays his money.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.

I think people desperately want to feel love.

My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.