The Wanted Quotes

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.

The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

All I've ever wanted to do was create freedom.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.

I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

I've worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Snoop Dogg ... right across to working with pop stars like Justin Timberlake. Why those artists came to me is because they wanted my sound.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.

When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.

I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.

It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.

Lord, bless our week. Help us to take all the necessary risks to become the person we always wanted to be.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.