top of page
More

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I don't have any pangs to where I want to be with the Broncos."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I want to do everything in the world that can be done."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It's not that you want to sing, it's that you have to sing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I just want to be more regular."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making."
Money

"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time."
Money

"I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar."
Want

"In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there."
Time

"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."
Actor

"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."
Awards

"All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance."
Business

"Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out."
American

"I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do."
People

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."
Money
bottom of page