The Wanted Quotes

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit .300 in the big leagues.

Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I’m not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

Unleash your life's potential! Don't hold back on the things you've always wanted to do. Go for it!

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I always wanted to be a mom.

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.