What We Wanted Quotes

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I left Christianity because I wanted to be a moral person. That is why I left. I no longer believed in its lies.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life. He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.

I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

I wanted to be a veterinarian. I adored animals, raised everything in the world and decided that was going to be what I was going to do. But I could sing.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

I just wanted to go to a place where I would feel happy and I am happy now.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be.

To be honest, all I wanted to do, all I ever, ever wanted to do - I just wanted to perform.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Yes, I wanted to win! I wanted the belt! I'm a belt mark! I want to sleep with it! I want to wear that and nothing else to church on Sunday!

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.