The Wanted Quotes

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted to sing.

I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

I really never wanted to do source control management at all and felt that it was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world .

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to know it. -Ella

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Stop looking at me like that." Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied. What moment?" I asked. You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

I like being put in embarrassing positions because it's the reason why I wanted to be an actress. I want to try different things and things that make me uncomfortable.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.

I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

Trace cursed. He actually wanted to hit something, but a tree would break his knuckles, he didn't want to put another dent in the truck, and Dare would hit back.

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

I bet you went on one date and wanted to get married.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

I wanted to do something that was entertaining - but with a catch.