What We Wanted Quotes

I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

I wanted to play football. It was what I did best at school and I'm pretty sporty, so that was the idea. Music was always a hobby, innit. I was more ahead with football.

As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

When I started recording, I thought I'd be able to do all kinds of records: jazz, country, dance - and I've always wanted to do a gospel album.

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldnt have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Playing halfback in high school and college was marvelous! It taught me how to get to the end zone. I wanted to make my nickname "End Zone Tommy!"

I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes.

I wanted to know what it means to know something, whether we can know at all, and, if so, how.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I wanted to marry Lucifer... I don't consider Lucifer an evil force...I feel his presence with his music. I feel like he comes and sits on my piano.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang.

I knew I wanted to shoot in Japan early on. Years ago, we did a Japan segment in "The Community Project," and at the time I felt it was one of the better Japan segments ever captured.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.