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Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

I want people to see me happy.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I want to perform well.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.