The Wanted Quotes

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

I never cared,” he said. “I wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

All I ever wanted Was to know that you were dreaming.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

A perfect ride. I fell a bit behind on the slow pace, but everything's good. It's real good. Yes, he ran the race we wanted him to run.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

I wanted to fly when I was little. I still want to fly.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.