What We Wanted Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

I just love the world around me and wanted my audience to love and appreciate it too.

I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I had always wanted to write a song called 'The Vicious Circle'. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her You're eleven, make your own!

I love to make people laugh and love to make people smile. The first time I performed and heard the applause, that was the sound that I wanted to hear for the rest of my life.

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

From the 12th Congressional District Hopeful William Jefferson Clinton during the Nixon investigations. I wanted to share some information I've turned up regarding two of your Clinton quotes.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.