What We Wanted Quotes

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

I've always been a player and a person who wanted to be the best at whatever he did.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish and I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

I really wanted to travel around the world, and give a strong hug to every fan of BIGBANG.

I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

I decided to play tennis not because I wanted to be a professional player, but because my parents wanted me to get involved in something so I wouldnt be running around the streets in Serbia.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.

Her little ring is a little thing, but its all I could afford Now she's mine, all mine till the day I die, and I never wanted nothin' more

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I don’t want to lose you. I’m in love with you Blaire. I’ve never wanted anything or anyone the way I want you. I can’t imagine my world now without you in it.

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.