The Wanted Quotes

I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I would not like to have a homogeneous type of film. I wanted to go to many different kinds of ways of making cinema and telling stories and watching the country.

I wanted to make an unashamed pop record. I became obsessed with Disney soundtracks from the '50s, so I decided to make my own.

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

I always wanted to teach.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to like losing, but to like the success that they had.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they wanted to balance the ticket.

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

I've always wanted to drive cross-country.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me

As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

I did not grow up spoiled in any way. I just wanted to be on TV.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

I wanted the truth, and I wanted the news, and I'd be damned before I settled for anything less.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

When I was young I wanted to be a gymnast. I used to compete at it, but then I grew too tall.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.

I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

As an American, no one expected Donald Trump to ever be a serious candidate for President. I don't think he even expected to be a serious candidate. He wanted the free media he would get.

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.