The Wanted Quotes

If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

I've always wanted a baby.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

... 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.

George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

New York is a place I wanted to come

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

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

Everybody in St. Louis, every kid in St. Louis, wanted to be Stan Musial. He was the best.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.

I wanted to get the guy who works next to me in the office something he really wants, but how do you wrap up a saloon?

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

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

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 was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

I never met who I really wanted to meet, and that was Charlie Chaplin.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!

I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything together, and I thought that we were a very good team.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.