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"I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are."
"I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows."
"It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward."
"It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating."
"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California"
"For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie."
"I don't want to stop bringing out music."
"I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music."
"I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me."
"I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?"
"I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do."
"I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy."
"I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over."
"If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it."
"I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with."
"Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions."
"Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it."
"We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off."
"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
"If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control."
