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"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.'"
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."
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"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity."
Life
"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
Funny
"There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'"
Time
"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
Life
"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."
Love
"I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work."
Work
"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority."
Time
"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started."
Success
"I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
Desperation
"If you've got a talent, protect it."
Talent
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