Wanted Quotes

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary.

I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children’s point of view.

I finished my career the way I wanted to.

I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

It's tough to put into words right now, but I finished my career how I wanted to. Through the ups and downs of my career I've still been able to do everything that I've ever wanted to accomplish.

I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.

So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

If I wanted to make a record to represent myself, I wouldn't put any (covers on it).

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

"What would you do if I kissed you right now?" I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back."

I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.

When I was younger, I could eat whatever I wanted, as long as I exercised; or if I didn't exercise and just watched what I ate, I'd maintain. Now I have to do both.

I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.