Quotes About Progress

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

The beauty of doing a series is that, over the course of time, it's like peeling an onion. You're able to reveal these layers, more and more. You just don't want to reveal too much, too soon.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

I think people do want change, but we want to make sure that the change will actually help people. And that's why I reject the change agenda that Donald Trump has.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.

I want us to invest in you.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

When can you enjoy something you'll continue to do it and you'll continue to have that want to grow.

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.