Mark Lanegan Quotes

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

I think that's really really important, you can't get in the industry, because you want to make money because number one, I don't think money should be motivation for anything because I don't believe that it has any value.

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

I want to stay with dancing, because that's what I want to do the rest of my life. I want to be in film and be acting and maybe even modeling a little bit.

I finally feel like I'm becoming somebody. I really think like I can do something. I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad.

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do.

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.