The Wanted Quotes

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.

Wraith rubbed his hands together in cheesy horror-movie glee. “Join us or die.” He grinned. “I’ve always wanted to say that.

There's nothing better than a Nebraska summer so I wanted to live there in the summer time and visit my family and go to as many Nebraska games as I could.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

I've always wanted to go to Austria.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

i felt my being flutter. each tousled head that came through the door i wanted to be his, but no and on, a dozen boys entered, yet not the one.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

I wanted to tell stories that moved. Nothing stays the same, and that's why photography is important. The world flickers and changes, and that's why video is important.

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

I wanted to be a lot of things. There were a million things I wanted to do. I still do. Acting is one of the good ways of doing it you know, because you can be all those things.

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

Cam: She is so lovely when she sleeps. Daniel: Is that why you wanted her to sleep for all eternity?

I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.

I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.