What We Wanted Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I wanted to play baseball!

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.