What’s the Difference Between a Lot Like Love and Love?: “Wow, that's a difficult question for me because I'm somewhat of a love cynic in that I don't know if it's truly like a 100%t attainable everyday in the human form. But I think that to me love is when your desire for someone else is greater than your desire for yourself, or equal to that. That's a very tricky thing to attain. I think that a lot like love is what most of us call love.”
Setting Goals Before Conquering a New Love: “That was the relatable quality of the character for me. You kind of always set these bars for yourself of like where you need to be in life before you can commit to doing other things. And you kind of create this illusion for yourself that you can't possibly have both. 'If I'm investing this amount of time in this, there's not enough hours in the day to do this as well.' And then what you ultimately find out is if you do that, this is going to fall apart because you have to have that balance. I think that with my career I for sure, in a lot of ways, did that and was unkind to people as a result. I don't think that I was fair to people and I think that I made really poor judgments in a lot of things and went driving for this career goal that could've existed and coincided with love.”
Ashton Kutcher on Success and How It’s Affected Him: “It's weird. I think that every time I have a movie come out that's successful or a show come out that's successful is kind of like a dream coming true. In a way, when dreams come true more than once we start to call them reality and now it's become like that. It's like I'm going, 'Wait a second. I'm there. I don't have to keep driving myself crazy about this thing.' It was more of like a dream. What I'm doing now never seemed like it was something that was possible. Like, 'Why would anyone want to listen to me? Why am I sitting in front of the microphone?' I'd always gone to the party and felt like the butler for my whole life.”
Clearing Up Misconceptions and the Hot Topic of Religion: “I try not to A) have religious beliefs. That would be the first misconception. For me, religiosity is doing things because other people say that this is something that will make your life better. Spirituality is doing things and then seeing the results and then believing in them. I don't know that I've specifically changed that like, 'Oh, let me kneel four times and say this phrase 20 times and now my life will be better.' I don't buy that at all. I think that the biggest change is that I think that I'm slowly trying to remove my ego from my life and by doing that I think that I’ve become a better person.”
The Real Story of Getting Punk’d by John Edwards: “Well, it was sort of a punk, but it sort of wasn't because it was real. I was campaigning in Minnesota and we were flying back to Iowa, I think, to do another thing. I was riding on his like Air Force One jet that they have with all the press in the back of the plane, and John has his cushy area in front and the Secret Service is there. We were getting off of the plane and it was very, very strict with luggage checks and things. They were actually checking luggage on the tarmac. And one of the secret service guys goes, 'Go ahead.' So I get on the plane and one of the Secret Service guys comes up to me and says, 'Is that your grey bag out there?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Is there any need for you to be carrying a firearm?' I said, 'No.' I immediately began going, 'I was speaking at an engagement and so I haven't had my bag.' He said, 'Well, you weren't hunting or anything like that?' I said, 'Why would I be hunting?!' He said, 'Well, we're going to have to detonate your bag on the runway.' I was like, 'Are you kidding?' I was like, 'Detonate it! I'm not trying to kill anyone, I promise. Detonate it. Do it! Please. I don't want it on the plane either.' Then they were like, 'You just got Punk'd.' I was like, 'That's not even fair. You're like actual Secret Service. You're not an actor. That doesn't count.' But they had a video camera taping it from the press place in the back. I'm trying to confiscate the videotape.”
