The Wanted Quotes

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Have you ever been - well, I mean, have you ever - really wanted someone? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didn't matter ?

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wanted to do.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

My chest expanded and I suddenly wanted to beat on it with my fist. The girl was making me go all caveman." -Marcus Hardy

It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.

She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.

I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

I wanted "Champion" to accompany that whole growth situation, 'cause I feel like, if you go overtime, you will become a champion.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.