Ashton Kutcher
27 quotes
Biography
"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"
"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 want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time."
"I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!"
"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."
"My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures."
"Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that."
"Your best T-shirt should be like your bed it just feels like you are home when you are in it."
"We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information."
"I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to."
"I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists."
"The goal is not to get into a relationship the goal is to be in a relationship."
"Your best T-shirt should be like your bed it just feels like you are home when you are in it."
"The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap! I promise you! It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous."
"Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history."
"There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out."
"In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'"
"In e-commerce, your prices have to be better because the consumer has to take a leap of faith in your product."
"As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married."
"If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company."
"I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life."
"My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad."
"My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic."
"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."
"You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic."