The Wanted Quotes

I always wanted to do my best. I got nothing free—I had to work hard.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there’s media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw the influence and saw what it's all about. This goes a long time.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.