I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

I want to be like Tom Cruise from The Outsiders and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.

Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.

Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.

I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needed to change me.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles.

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

I like a high boot on a girl.

I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can't control - when they write lies at least - because the laws can't really protect you unless you can prove malicious intent. So I just choose not to read it.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.

I say whatever I think and whatever is on my mind, and I just hope that it comes out good. I just try to have a lot of fun.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.