The Wanted Quotes

While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

I've always wanted my offering to have broad appeal and work for a diverse range of women with different lifestyles.

Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

I've always wanted to have my own studio because this is a way for me to finally take all things that I've always dreamt about and actually put them into action.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

I am very pleased it has all been resolved. I wanted to stay at the club and they wanted me too, there was never a problem. There were only a few small matters to sort out.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

I never knew that the things I wanted to do would come this fast, but this is the route that God took me, and so I'm excited.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

I started my blog - never thought that would have an audience, and that turned into such a huge, life-changing career for me. I definitely wanted it, I just didn't fully plan on it, of course.

Itd be cool to carry on doing films, but when I was a kid I wanted to be an ice cream man.

I always wanted to go into acting.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

I cast very much from the gut, and I think I was very lucky to be able to get... many amazing international... people that I had always really wanted to work with.

A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other.

Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what.