The Wanted Quotes

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

I always just wanted to have enough to carry on. I never had ambitions to take over the world or be a global enterprise. But I wanted to have a strong business in order to do the main objective.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, "No, I just want to be an actor."

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

They wanted me to lead these young players, teach them the way to compete, when the only thing I should be worried about is how I'm performing in the game.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun.

I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

I just wanted it to be American.

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.