What We Wanted Quotes

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

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.

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.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

People always ask me if I wish I were bigger. I tell them no. I always wanted to be a miniature badass.

I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I wanted to find out if we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about each and every individual, what would happen?

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days?

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone. Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

I stopped waiting for the world to give me what I wanted; I started giving it to myself.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.

I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.

I was actually pissed off. I wanted to go my entire ECW career without winning titles. The only reason I won titles is because guys left.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.