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I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

I don't want to go to Hollywood.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.