Wanted Quotes

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

I wanted to write for Broadway.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

I always wanted to rebel.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.

I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.

I don't know if I could kill someone with a frozen turkey because that is a lot of evidence to eat .... unless I found a whole room of people who also wanted that person dead.

You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

I started when I was 14. I figured out that's what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, "You're gonna be a comedian," and all this stuff.

All I wanted to be was a player.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.