The Wanted Quotes

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.

I wanted to show you that it's not all cold and intimidating," Finn explained. "I wanted you to see something warm and beautiful.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

If I hadn't become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was a little kid. I wanted to be a social worker.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her.

I just wanted to be myself and that's why I chose to do 'Big Brother,' because I wanted everyone to see the real Amy Childs.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do.

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I'’ve been a Hip-Hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.