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"Mencheres dropped his hands from my shoulders. “You know that’s what he wants. He’ll want to trade, you for her.” “Then I’ll do it,” I said. Bones’s grip on me turned to steel. “No, you won’t."
"But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all technical about it. He still had living sperm in his juice." Cat and Bones"
"When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL."
"I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy."
"If you just want to be a star, go away."
"I want to co-produce again."
"You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard."
"It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF."
"There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that."
"I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am."
"Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?"
"The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up."
"The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer."
"The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility."
"I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that."
"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."
"I want to say less, and it's easier to say less."
"I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it."
"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
"I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally, we're still waiting to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable."
