The Wanted Quotes

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

[To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

I only wanted to help my people.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story and creating a three-act structure out of it.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.