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"The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me."
"Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out."
"I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I have in me, that's where it comes out. That's not the kind of working out I want to do."
"I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love."
"Umm, there are so many people that I've never had one person that I've particularly idolised or I thought "Wow, I want to be just like them." It used to be when I was younger, Julia Roberts, I used to just love her. There is something so appealing about her."
"I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do."
"I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go."
"The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession."
"I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays."
"As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known."
"It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job."
"Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore."
"Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t."
"My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy."
"I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat."
"Worrying is imagining that which you don't want."
"I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again."
"I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs."
"Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also."
"To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening."
