What We Wanted Quotes

I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

When I was three years old, I had race-car wallpaper, a race-car bed, race-car toys. That was all I wanted. And nothing has changed. Except I don't have a race-car bed anymore.?

I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

I've always wanted to kick a duck up the arse

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.

I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.