The Wanted Quotes

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

I got tired of New York. I mean when you grow up somewhere, uh, I just basically wanted something different for myself and if I was planning on having a family.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

If he had one true love, then he wanted you to have one, too.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

I also had a huge crush on William Holden. I would go to see William Holden's movies alone - I didn't want to be with anybody. I just wanted to be with him.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.