I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.
I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.
I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.
I'm the person who writes most of my movies so every role is exactly what I want to be doing.
You would not want me on your football team.
The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.
I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.
I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.
If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.
Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed.
Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.
Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
If you want to get in shape, go to the # gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there.
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
Who gets to decide what you want?
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.