The Wanted Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

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.

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

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 had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

It was better to know what people were really like than put your trust in someone who just wanted to hurt you in the end.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.

I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone.

It's nice to feel needed... it's better to feel wanted.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

Nothing annoys a man as to hear a woman promising to love him "forever" when he merely wanted her to love him for a few weeks.

I haven't found anything that I've wanted to say that I couldn't do through either the Internet or the reality shows that I've done.