The Wanted Quotes

He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently.

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

Remember to be yourself and remember throughout everything why you first wanted to do this.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.

When I was four years old some friends of my family took me to see 'Fantasia' and I was totally blown away. From that minute on I wanted to be an animator.

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

Jon Bolton is the neocon's neocon. He was a hawk straight down the line. He wanted to bomb Iran five, six years ago before the Donald Trump election!

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

I've always been a Batman fan, and I've always wanted to draw and write the sort of stories that I've always loved about Batman.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that.

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.