What We Wanted Quotes

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you cant go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.

When Wes came back to Limp Bizkit, we really wanted to do something different. We wanted to make a core record that we didn't care who liked or who disliked.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.