Wanted Quotes

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

You had women's kickboxing and they're in the ring and that's what I want to do. I just wanted to fight.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.

It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

I've always wanted to play a teacher.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.