"I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me."
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"I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than."
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"I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health."
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"When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires."
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"As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'"
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"Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV."
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"An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something."
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"You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent."
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"I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down."
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"I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next."
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"In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do."
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"He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that."
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"Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part."
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"The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much."
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"The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to."
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"I'm doing this because I want to do it better."
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"You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in."
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"In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'"
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"I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse."
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"If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid."
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