The Wanted Quotes

...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.

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 write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny

After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.