The Wanted Quotes

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

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In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

If I had hit it like I wanted to I'd have holed it.

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino.

[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

I expected to be in the big leagues soon. I didn't know exactly how soon, but I wanted to be here soon, and I wanted to make a difference soon.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

He didn't want to please his readers. He wanted to stretch them until they twanged.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.