The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it's a major problem, that's just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.
I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.
Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy.
I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
Within the realm of wrestling, it's been the same every year - just continually trying to improve and evolve as a wrestler, putting myself in a position to not maintain but maximize my potential.