What We Wanted Quotes

I think I would probably be He-Man because Battle Cat would clinch the deal for me because I've always wanted a large, green cat.

When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.

I never wanted to be a public speaker.

David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him].

There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.

Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.

Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them.