The Wanted Quotes

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.

I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

People don't make albums any more. It's always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.

I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

I was the kid that wanted to be anonymous in that I'd put a football helmet on and be a member of a team and go out there and maim people. It was a very hard process. It truly was.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

My mom nor my father never pushed me into the music business. I always did it because I wanted to.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn't really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

KISS hammered home the importance of high drama...I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

I've always wanted to be a cardiologist. If I have time I want to study Medicine someday.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.