The Wanted Quotes

I just wanted to sing on TV.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

But the truth is, I've never wanted to be a movie star - and I've been pretty clear about that.

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

I was not stressing about what other people wanted. I put myself first.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly.

I wanted to emphasize the fact that I'd matured. I wanted to break away from the image of being the youngest member of Big Bang, as well as the image I gave off on variety shows.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

I wanted to help women and their families.

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.