I never meant to be an actress.
I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
It's not my intention to have anything at all to do with violence.
I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.
It was never my intention to hurt people's feelings.
I wasn't scandalous - I didn't want to be.
If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
What is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.
You've got to just follow your heart and do your best work. For better or worse, I have followed my heart. There is no doubt in my mind or heart that everything I've done is exactly what I intended to do.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
I hope and believe all the people that worked very closely with me at BHS for all those years, and some for the whole journey, will know it was never my intention for the business to have the ending it did.
I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
I had no intention of being an entertainer.
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.
I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
To be honest, I wasn't looking at 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya' as a platform to dance again.
I always say that fashion is a thing that I'm going to get into at some point.
I never set out to be a published writer.
