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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

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I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

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I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

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Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

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I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.
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I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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I've always wanted to do a family movie.

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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

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When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

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I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

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I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

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I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

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Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.

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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'

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I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

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I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.

Wanted Remind Myself Others
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I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

Gone Down Several Paths
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

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