What We Wanted Quotes

Cara [Delevingne] I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.

I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it

The deep blue of your eyes had secrets. I wanted them.

Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because I had a reputation for being an aerodynamic dictator!

I never went to sleep thinking and dreaming that I wanted to be an actor. It just kind of fell on my lap and I said, "Okay, maybe I can do this? Lets see.".

My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

I just always wanted to stay busy.

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

People comment on how you look, it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.

I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Bill Clinton valued my opinion and always made sure that my views were heard, and people knew that he wanted me to talk.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

The one reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

It was the perfect moment to tell her. This is my last year. But I couldn’t say it. Not yet. I wanted another minute, another hour, another night of pretending this wasn’t the end.

Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

I sat on the hill, the wind whispering through the long grass that surrounded me. I stared at the stars and wanted more than what I was and more than what the world was and just - wanted.

No, you have to talk first. You wanted to talk. It means you say something and I respond and you talk back again. It's one of the human race's most shining achievements. It's called a conversation.

you wanted saving didn't you?

Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was broken.

The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.