The Wanted Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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'.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.