The Wanted Quotes

[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

I have tons of rescuing fantasies based on the movies I saw when I was growing up. I wanted to be Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing.

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life I wanted to spend.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a kind of account which would somehow be explanatory.

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

hardly anything in L.A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

And if I wanted to kill myself, I wouldn't throw myself off a roof. And if I was going to throw myself off a roof, I would put on some pants before I did it.

I've always wanted to be a mom.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.