Wanted Quotes

It’s a great feeling to be wanted but it’s more exciting to be inaccessible.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.

I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted to do. It wasn't about hitting the jackpot, it was about sustainability.

I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I worked in cable news for a long time, but I'm not a pundit. I'm just not. I'm grateful to people that are, but I was really miserable trying to do that. I just wanted to be myself.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.

I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

After I did the swimsuit issuе, I knew that I wanted to do it again.

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I didn't want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue.

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

I wanted to be sure that my donation did two things: went directly into the hands of hurricane victims and that it was an amount that could really impact their lives and make a difference.

I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title

It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.