Sam Taylor-Wood
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CHARLIE HADEN LUKE EVANS GRETCHEN RUBIN I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people. TOM SIZEMORE WANG JIANLIN I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science backgr... MICHAEL BIRCH I have destroyed a lot of the fun for myself because I take it so seriously. CHASE WESTFALL I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties wi... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE DAVID BOWIE JAY-Z I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. ... SUSAN OLSEN I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and creat... MARK HAMILL ALAN BENNETT I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of m... POLLY BERGEN I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied m... JOHN ZIMMER I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire t... KAREN ALLEN I was nervous (coming into the game). I was nervous I think because I wanted to win this game so bad... JENNIFER MARTIN It was tough (to rebound). I felt like I had arm jewelry on the whole night. But I just ripped the b... LAUREN JURIC I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire t... KAREN ALLEN RICHARD AVEDON JAY-Z KARA WALKER EMANUEL STEWARD I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a still... ROGER DEAKINS I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be f... DANIEL JOHNSTON JOAN RIVERS Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by th... MIGUEL CALEB LANDRY JONES I was told about 'Misfits' when we were in prep for 'Chronicle', and I wanted to wat... JOSH TRANK MICHAEL CAINE I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor... CHRIS WOOD I managed to survive the repression and the torture, but many others found it much more difficult. I... AHMED HERZENNI LIZA MINNELLI DANTE ALIGHIERI I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a... PAUL WELLER GLORIA SWANSON When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you we... LAURIE SIMMONS DAMIEN HIRST When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn t... DAVID COVERDALE I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It... HILARY DUFF I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like... BARRY HANNAH I wanted that record pretty badly, so I was kind of upset after the race. LEAH GINGRICH I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I ... EDWARD RUSCHA I wanted to combine my art history and sociology background to create an interdisciplinary project t... KRISTEN APA I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That'... T BONE BURNETT I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a ... TIM O'REILLY I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I ... EDWARD RUSCHA DAVID MORRISSEY JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did... MEREDITH MONK What I really wanted was to perform. So if it took four world titles or one Olympic medal, I just wa... KURT BROWNING NEIL MARSHALL It was a game I wanted to win so badly and we had the opportunity to win. JUSTIN HOLLAND It just meant a lot because it's something I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted ... CARLY PATTERSON EDDIE MURPHY DAMIEN HIRST That helped me a lot. When I came here I was ready to play because I saw a lot of pitching. EDWIN ENCARNACION DEYTH BANGER JACK LOWDEN I'm an artist sometimes, but I find myself in love with art all of the time. THEE AMAZING GRACE At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, becau... CATHERINE HICKS It was costly and I let the side down badly. I've been catching the ball so sweetly all week, too. I... ANDRE NEL EDDIE MURPHY BEHATI PRINSLOO I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'... LOUISE BOURGEOIS I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It w... ZHANG ZIYI JANIS JOPLIN As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came befor... KIESZA LAURA MENNELL I wanted to end myself at lunchtime but we came back nicely. It was costly but I found the best way ... ANDRE NEL I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. Tha... MADDIE ZIEGLER ANSELM KIEFER KARL LAGERFELD JAMES ELLROY That was not the way I wanted it to end. I wanted to go a lot farther -- I can't say that I was sati... VANESSA DAVISON CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I spoke to the Haller family to tell them the resolution was going to be passed, they were shoc... LARRY THOMAS First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harpe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. The... MARY LOU WILLIAMS Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing... 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SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout ... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative struct... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of ... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalys... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art ... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your ima... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think yo... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... becau... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman th... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic ... SAM WOOD Todd and I have a very complementary working style . SAM WOOD We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for ch... SAM WOOD While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, To... SAM WOOD But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of... SAM TAYLOR Now, e-commerce reports to the head of retail. SAM TAYLOR I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to we... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anasta... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to trea... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let my... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of compositi... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my th... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fant... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to runnin... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knoc... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of p... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move ... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hea... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...&... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things ab... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sand... VICTORIA WOOD Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason... NATALIE WOOD The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol ... RON WOOD No, I never ever considered myself attractive. LANA WOOD I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep trac... LANA WOOD I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. LANA WOOD When I get married it will be for keeps. NATALIE WOOD A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor. NATALIE WOOD I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an... NATALIE WOOD I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done. NATALIE WOOD Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting marri... NATALIE WOOD I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me. NATALIE WOOD There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type. NATALIE WOOD Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human ... NATALIE WOOD For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life r... NATALIE WOOD I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, ... NATALIE WOOD I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic. NATALIE WOOD I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be. NATALIE WOOD The constant attention is what is so difficult. NATALIE WOOD If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store. NATALIE WOOD My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later. NATALIE WOOD I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie t... NATALIE WOOD I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool. NATALIE WOOD I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. NATALIE WOOD My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the tr... NATALIE WOOD Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up. NATALIE WOOD Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself. NATALIE WOOD The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. NATALIE WOOD I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was. NATALIE WOOD We were descended from royalty. NATALIE WOOD By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that int... JAKE WOOD ELIJAH WOOD You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were. BEATRICE WOOD You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and... BEATRICE WOOD You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrate... BEATRICE WOOD Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy. BEATRICE WOOD Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out. BEATRICE WOOD The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which does... BEATRICE WOOD I'm not too interested in books about India. BEATRICE WOOD But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America. BEATRICE WOOD But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through. BEATRICE WOOD And then a great thing in my life was going to India. BEATRICE WOOD And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and no... BEATRICE WOOD A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic. BEATRICE WOOD There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you ca... BEATRICE WOOD Sex is energy. BEATRICE WOOD I was in a convent for a year. BEATRICE WOOD I happen to believe that there is an afterlife. BEATRICE WOOD And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on... BEATRICE WOOD First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me w... BEATRICE WOOD Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp. BEATRICE WOOD But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up. BEATRICE WOOD Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts. BEATRICE WOOD And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color. BEATRICE WOOD I don't like to sell my finest pieces. BEATRICE WOOD And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. BEATRICE WOOD My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. BEATRICE WOOD We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artis... ED WOOD Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now... ED WOOD Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something. ED WOOD He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work. ED WOOD This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he ... ED WOOD Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello. ED WOOD It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller. ED WOOD We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds. ED WOOD Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens o... ED WOOD One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp. ED WOOD What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief? ED WOOD I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of ... RON WOOD We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was... WOOD HARRIS We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not. ALASTAIR WOOD We try to teach them how to make a presentation so that it's valuable to people, so they deliver a m... ALASTAIR WOOD I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C... ALASTAIR WOOD I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk. ALASTAIR WOOD I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more produc... ALASTAIR WOOD Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology. ALASTAIR WOOD A generation of arrogance. We didn't trust anyone over 30. We believed we could fix all the prejudic... ALASTAIR WOOD and that risk is not trivial. ALASTAIR WOOD There's no evidence they are a good value, ALASTAIR WOOD It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy, ALASTAIR WOOD I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have... ALAN WOOD We won't be seeing anything we haven't seen already this year. The experience we have and the schedu... ALAN WOOD Short term, this is going to be bad. Long term, this may be good. ALAN WOOD The suggestions are not meant to gut any program but to stimulate discussion. I also feel that most ... ALAN WOOD We're going to have to whittle it down. I think we can cut harmlessly at first, and then we'll have ... ALAN WOOD An awful lot of people are very upset with us, and we've got to do whatever we can to reduce taxes a... ALAN WOOD We didn't have enough money so we bought what we could and the Trust for Public Land is raising the ... ALAN WOOD There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know ... RON WOOD I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan... RONNIE WOOD ELIJAH WOOD I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ... ROBIN WOOD ELIJAH WOOD MARYROSE WOOD DAVID WOOD We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ELLEN WOOD Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. DON WOOD DIANE WOOD I play Captain Lance Van Der Berg, who's a Union captain who ends up staying with the Confederat... CHRIS WOOD I did a lot of musicals growing up. CHRIS WOOD I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get... CHRIS WOOD I think that I'm lucky in that, even at levels where I, by and large, wasn't making enough m... CHRIS WOOD It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do... CHRIS WOOD When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlant... CHRIS WOOD I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routin... CHRIS WOOD I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after ... CHRIS WOOD If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a... CHRIS WOOD I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and ... CHRIS WOOD I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye... CHRIS WOOD I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor... CHRIS WOOD I studied religions and all kinds of other things in college. I took a Shakespearean villain course ... CHRIS WOOD I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with ... CHRIS WOOD I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at hom... CHRIS WOOD I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my... CHRIS WOOD Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to... CHRIS WOOD I play rec softball sort of religiously. I'm a huge baseball fan. When I lived in New York City,... CHRIS WOOD Every character thinks differently, and every character has a different energy and way that they tic... CHRIS WOOD I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up. CHRIS WOOD The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, ... CHRIS WOOD Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where y... CHRIS WOOD Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show. CHRIS WOOD If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach m... CHRIS WOOD I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react ... CHRIS WOOD ELIJAH WOOD At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo... NATALIE WOOD But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through. BEATRICE WOOD And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on con... BEATRICE WOOD And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Y... BEATRICE WOOD My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. BEATRICE WOOD In the face of aggressive competition from Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens this is going ot be a c... BEN WOOD You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attra... BEN WOOD The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your pho... BEN WOOD
I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always sec... 
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. 
Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was mean... 
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. 
I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When... 
I came back because I had to. Because there was nothing wrong in the world except that I was getting... 
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way ... 
In fact, because I liked him so badly, I needed to continue on my course. I was finally becoming the... 
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For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It i... 
It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against pa... 
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier. 
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable no... 
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort... 
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In... 
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. 
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ... 
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. 
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wan... 
All my way through college, I worked my way as a window dresser for Lord & Taylor, so I always l... 
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films tha... 
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier... 
Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was i... 
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way ... 
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temp... 
For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endles... 
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not ... 
I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent. 
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaki... 
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being... 
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make somethin... 
I've always wanted a family since I was a little girl - a big family. I'm an only child, so ... 
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I rea... 
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's ... 
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or no... 
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. 
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I want... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out wh... 
Why do we have to do this in the middle of the night?” Taylor asked.
You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway. 
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. 
I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!! 
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. 
I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions agai... 
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand do... 
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut... 