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On how Kabbalah has changed him as a person:
"I think it probably just made me a more thoughtful person. It's probably made me a more sensitive person, a little bit more emotional person, and hopefully a little bit less selfish. That would be it."
Kutcher on his favorite charity that he works with:
"My favorite charity that I work with is a program called SFK, which is the two programs that they're really responsible for and they've allowed me to help them with. SFK is called Spirituality For Kids, which is just a non-denominational, no religion, no nothing - they don't even use the word God, or the devil or anything like that. It's just about - kind of like moral rules. The essence of it is there are no bad people, there are just bad decisions. And it just helps young kids make good decisions in their lives. When they come up against obstacles, it helps teach them self worth and self value. And they just did a test on it and they were with the kids that they were working with in the prisons, in the juvenile detention centers. We went out to Rikers and got some information back that the kids that have gone through the program have, in compared to a lot of other programs that they do, the results of it are pretty phenomenal. And now we're working on getting into certain schools - a lot of the programs I just go, ‘God, I wish somebody had broken this down for me.’ It would have made a lot of things a lot easier."
On what he wants to accomplish on personal level by the time he's 40:
"By 40? Wow, it's hard to say because I think I want to find places in my life where I'm selfish and remove that. That's my goal, right? When I look at my day, that's what I strive to do. And then everything else just goes thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, and falls into place."
Kutcher on what he wants to accomplish on a professional level:
"That will follow. You know, here's the thing: if you set out to make getting a car your goal, if you're like, ‘Man, I just wanna get a car, that's my goal,’ and you don't identify what it is that given a car will give you, or like why you want the car, so that you want a new Mercedes-Benz, you're driving an old car, you know, Pinto, whatever you're driving, you want a new Mercedes. If you identify what it is that you think that car’s gonna give you, which you're gonna feel confident, you're gonna feel successful, and then go, ‘Okay, now the car’s gonna give me a feeling of being successful, okay?’ Then, if you strive after the car, because what you really want is success, you'll give all of your success away to the car and your feeling of confidence to the car. You gave all your power away to the car. If you strive after being successful, the car will follow."
On whether he wants to continue to do more positive things:
"Like, doing other comedies, or other kinds of stuff? Don't watch my next two films, that'll really frighten you because I don't play really nice people in my next couple of films. [laughs] I think it's really fun to make comedies. It's fun to make comedies, and one of the things I like in life is to have fun. So that's how I like to make other people laugh."
On whether he's a fashion type of guy:
"I like fashion. I think it's another way that you get to express yourself. So I appreciate it, I appreciate it as an art. I appreciate the fact that somebody's put a lot of energy into making something that looks a really good way. I have aesthetic appreciation."
On how he connects spirituality and fashion since they're often opposing forces:
"First of all, I haven't bought a stitch of clothing in eight years. [laughs] In eight years I have not bought a piece of clothing, not one. In eight years, I've bought stuff for other people. I bought gifts for other people."
On whether all of his clothes are actually given to him:
"Yeah, because I give to other people and so that stuff comes to me. Right? That's kind of how the world works, right? When you give..."
On whether that only applies to Ashton Kutcher:
"Wait a second, that's Newtonian physics. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. That's a law of the universe, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Have you ever seen the balls that you drop and it goes tick tock? So if I give a lot, people will give to me."
Ashton Kutcher on how making a movie can be spiritual since people put hard work, energy and labor into the project:
"If somebody can go to this movie and laugh their ass off for an hour and a half, walk out and instead of punching the guy that they would've punched on the way in, they just smile at him on the way out because he's in a better mood, I've given somebody something."
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