What We Wanted Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred.

When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.

One of the things that I wanted was to be known as one of the finest MCs and I think the people gave me the respect I was looking for.

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

Yeah, I know, but word came from Artemis herself that she wanted him here. Looks like we’re having a psycho reunion this week…Oh wait, it’s Mardi Gras. Duh. (Talon)

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

I wanted to play baseball!

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

I wanted to be a nobleman; I bought a name and a title... Oh, nothing is impossible with five million a year.