Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
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I don't weigh myself - it's all about how I feel in my clothes.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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I always wanted to be a great actor.
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You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
