The Wanted Quotes

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.

You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

The way a dancer can bring the crowd to its feet with a drawn-out, well-executed pirouette is the excitement I wanted to capture with this design.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

"Cool" Leo said. "I always wanted a sister who could beat me up."

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.

I could be one if I wanted to, I'm just way too overqualified for a job that simple.

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.

My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

I wanted to be the best in the world.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.