The Wanted Quotes

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

All I ever wanted to be was a Ninja... Tong from Kickboxer, Sagat from Street Fighter.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.

Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I just wanted what was outside to be different.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.

I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.

I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

A lot of people who wanted to audition for Idol have asked me: “What should I do?” or “How to I prepare myself?” I always told them: “Just go in and believe in yourself.”

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.