What We Wanted Quotes

We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

If I had nothing to do and I wanted to sit in a dark room and relax, I could at times. But to be busy is very nice. To have things to do and have a schedule.

When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

I usually kissed my clients if they wanted to kiss. I thought it was just way too weird to say "no kissing allowed," That to me was uncomfortable.

I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

My thing was always trying to do as much as I possibly could do. I wanted to do all the things the other kids did in the neighborhood.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.