Wanted Quotes

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

So he was opening night... I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Some of these agendas wanted me to quit, very simply, so they said "we have all the guarantees if you want to leave, and all the money and everything you want." Of course, you just ignore that.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel. More than I think you'll ever know.

Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

What I really wanted was the impossible.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to prove that I could direct.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

Sure, I have a job now, but the acting business isn't always that solid, and so I wanted something to fall back upon.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.