The Wanted Quotes

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

I wanted to be a jockey.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.