What We Wanted Quotes

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.

I wanted to be a painter.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.

I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

It was always summer and the future called We were ready for adventure and we wanted them all And there was so much left to dream And so much time to make it real

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sure how to put those pieces together for myself.

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.