What We Wanted Quotes

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

I always wanted to perform.

He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.

But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn't even sure if she wanted it back!

I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'

For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.

I'm not a big fan of remakes. I never wanted to do a remake.

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

I didn't want the easy kind of love, I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

I wanted so much to keep you safe. I did my best. I'm sorry things didn't come out different for the two of us. I wish I could have been good enough for you.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

I always wanted to be a writer.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I met my wife when we were 15 years old. I knew within 15 minutes of meeting her, that's who I wanted to marry.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

For me, I've always wanted to do theater, so I gravitate toward it.

At 13 you're not even thinking about that, you know? I was just playing for fun and uploading videos on YouTube because I wanted to show my family.