The Wanted Quotes

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

I was going to strive at something that I loved to do. And I didn't care what the outcome was; I wanted it to be something successful, I wanted to move forward.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

I won’t even pretend I didn’t care. I wanted to win. I mean, if you don’t care about winning the competition, why show up?

At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military brotherhood, fighting terrorism there so we wouldn't have to fight it here.

Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I was just starting out acting [doing "Airplane"] and wanted to be taken as a professional, not as an athlete doing a cameo.

I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted money and wanted to travel. So I knew there was a price to pay for that.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.

I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that Ive always wanted to make since I was a kid.

We wanted to wait until the music felt right. We didn't want to do it, just to do it. We didn't want to do it for money, I guess, is the thing that would have just bummed me out so much.