The Wanted Quotes

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

The Americans stabbed in the back the forces that worked to bring about the collapse of Saddam's regime and wanted to keep Iraq a sovereign country.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

Don't say the words I wanted to hear from Ren.

Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

As a kid I always wanted to be a centre-forward. I wanted the buzz and thrill of scoring goals from an early age.

I have never wanted to go abroad before but you can never say never in football.

[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.

I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.

My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.