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"The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die."
"I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, "You want to go to this party and do some networking?""
"When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around."
"I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good."
"I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow."
"I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass."
"Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy."
"There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep."
"I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail."
"After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed."
"I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell."
"You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."
"I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone."
"Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?"
"I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down."
"I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill."
"I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me"
"I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know."
"Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of."
"You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment."
