What We Wanted Quotes

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.

I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I decided that I wanted to do that because I was a passionate kid about watching movies.

I was 12, about to turn 13. [Laura Ziffren] pretty much knew she wanted to use me, so I just had to go and do the proper protocol and audition.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform it, a possibility that only art gives us.

I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

People wanted to see Rey Mysterio and PsIcosis in a match, and we had such a great chemistry. I don't think there was anyone at that time who could match what we were bringing to the table.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.

I wanted to be the fifth Beatle.

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?" "Ask him where he got the boots." "You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.

Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

I want you, Kaylee, like I’ve never wanted anything. Ever. I want the fire. I want the heat, and the light, and I want the burn.

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place.