What We Wanted Quotes

When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

I am obsessed with you, angel. Addicted to you. You're everything i've ever wanted or needed, everything i've dreamed of. You're everything. I live and breathe you. For you.

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

I've always known I wanted a family.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.

I always wanted to be a superhero.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.