What We Wanted Quotes

I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.

Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light.

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.

I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried to empathize architecture as much as I could.

I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans. (on reaching the Champions League final)

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick

I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!