The Wanted Quotes

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Not playing on Sunday has caused problems for other organizations or teams who wanted us to do so, but we never had to think twice about such a decision.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes me the way Keith Jarrett does on piano.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Starting at 16 years old I was in boardrooms of older executives pitching talk shows. I wanted to be the youngest talk show host for a really long time.

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.