When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.
A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.
I never want to be pretentious.
I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.
I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.
A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
When I'm locked in and focused, I can do pretty much anything I want.
I can be pretty much anything I want.
Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.
I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as many things for as long as they can. Specialization is a natural thing that should come later - it shouldn't come for 8-year-olds.
Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.
As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
Prince Charles has doomed himself by so clearly wanting to be thought clever and cultured: the clever, cultured people don't buy it, and the people don't want a clever, cultured ruler.
I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.
