That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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It ... ESSIE DAVIS It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and ... PATRICK MARBER I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r... JODI BENSON I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is toug... ICE CUBE 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic. RICHARD DONNER I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people... BEBE REXHA I can't admit things; that's why I can't go to funerals and stuff like that. I find it v... SIMON COWELL I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It'... 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BRIAN LAMB I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm ve... OONA CHAPLIN I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm ... LARENZ TATE I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ... NICK SWARDSON Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes t... SEBASTIAN STAN I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff. LOUIS PRIMA Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body. RANDEE HELLER I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys alw... KEVIN NASH It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. T... AARTI SEQUEIRA My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm ... TAYLOR MOMSEN I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there... CAMILO VILLEGAS I'm going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do 'small' and 'off my beaten path,... PATTY GRIFFIN I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really coo... KIRSTEN DUNST Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for Fra... DAVID LLOYD With the first issue of 'Weasel,' I was even aware myself that I'd improved. I still hav... DAVE COOPER I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa... 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NICKI MINAJ There's obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fan... CAMERON DALLAS It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me... DUFFY I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given c... NEILL BLOMKAMP As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the powe... EBON MOSS-BACHRACH With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even ... COREY TAYLOR I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a... FAMKE JANSSEN Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up ... LARRY THE CABLE GUY It fits my ADD, so that's good. 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STEVEN WRIGHT When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&... BILL GOLDBERG
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TED KOPPEL My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-develope... TED KOPPEL Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay... TED KOPPEL My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and ... TED KOPPEL The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. TED KOPPEL I think we're glazing eyes all across America. TED KOPPEL I have the necessary lack of tact. TED KOPPEL There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. ... TED KOPPEL In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. TED KOPPEL History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. TED KOPPEL Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not ... TED KOPPEL People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the '... TED KOPPEL There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. TED KNIGHT Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. TED KNIGHT People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. TED HUGHES It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. TED HUGHES What happens in the heart simply happens. 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TED DEXTER For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them... TED DEUTCH We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people. TED DEUTCH Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not ... TED DEUTCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t... TED DEUTCH We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. TED DEUTCH Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa... TED DEUTCH We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans. TED DEUTCH It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h... TED DEUTCH Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar... TED DEUTCH I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and... TED DEUTCH We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip... TED DEUTCH I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast... TED DEUTCH This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak... TED DEUTCH Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. TED DEUTCH Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l... TED DEUTCH As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just... TED DEUTCH It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin... TED DEUTCH I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta... TED DEUTCH For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ... TED DEUTCH It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place. TED DEUTCH My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... TED DEKKER I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel... TED DEKKER I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ... TED DEKKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th... TED DEKKER All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ... TED DEKKER My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und... TED DEKKER It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d... TED DEKKER My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r... TED DEKKER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th... TED DEKKER When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet... TED DEKKER My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality... TED DEKKER Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ... TED DEKKER While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey... TED DEKKER The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a... TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ... TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i... TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da... TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What... TED DEKKER Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. TED DANSON Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit... TED DANSON We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick... TED DANSON We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol... TED DANSON If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot... TED DANSON When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. TED DANSON 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a... TED DANSON Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli... TED DANSON I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca... TED DANSON The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve... TED DANSON Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i... TED DANSON We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons... TED DANSON We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi... TED DANSON Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them... TED DANSON The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up... TED DANSON You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. TED DANSON Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding... TED DANSON The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it... TED DANSON Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but... TED DANSON I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ... TED CRUZ When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani... TED CRUZ The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. TED CRUZ We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl... TED CRUZ I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. TED CRUZ This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a... TED CRUZ I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script... TED CRUZ I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y... TED CRUZ If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. TED CRUZ It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ... TED CRUZ I was so horrifically bad at tennis. TED CRUZ I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan. TED CRUZ In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. TED CRUZ I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make. TED CRUZ Stopping bad things is a significant public service. TED CRUZ The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world... TED CRUZ