When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republican voters who support Donald Trump, have blamed the staged riots near Trump rallies on Trump or on Bernie Sanders. That's like blaming the Russians for the Reichstag Fire.
Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president of Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America.
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.
I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.
I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.
I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'
Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
I definitely want to work with Kanye, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande - all the big people.
You don't accidentally turn into a big band. Not even Nirvana accidentally turned into a big band. They toured - they wanted to become a big band. They didn't necessarily want to become that big of a band, but they still wanted to make a really good record and wanted to come out and tour.
We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
