The Wanted Quotes

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

I never wanted to be a director.

Bringing a baby into the world is something I've always wanted, and now I'm completely ready for my life to start revolving around another human being.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me, like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in.

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.