Wanted Quotes

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

You're not able to do a lot of projects because you don't have a name. I wanted to get my movies to come over that hedge, so that I could do the movies that I wanted to do.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three Pigs Bar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the fleabags and stoners worked there, so that’s where I wanted to be.

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.

You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would they say if one asked them what they wanted instead?

I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.

I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

If most people wanted to be incognito, they put on a fake beard or mustache. If I wanted to I'd just shave mine off.

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I never had a trial I wanted to have, but I never had trial I wasn't glad I had.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.