The Wanted Quotes

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

ECW's legacy will be as the company who took all the mistfits that nobody else wanted, and created stars.

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

Bobby [Fosse] was very difficult to work with, he wanted to be a big star at MGM, but it was the end of making musical movies at the time.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's something about the act of writing that organizes thoughts and memories.

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

I just wanted to make sure I had the music true to me and the life I'm living and to what I really want to say. That's super important to me.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I wanted a more female point of view.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.

What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?

Hillary Clinton wanted to hide what she was doing so that there was no trail

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

My wife wanted to call our daughter Sue, but I felt that in our family that is usually a verb.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.

I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.