What We Wanted Quotes

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

You should be afraid. Very afraid. Before, I told you if you wanted to end things between us, I would let you go, but, Leila"--his voice deepened--"I lied.

There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

I don't pretend that all the first Zionists wanted Israel to be a moral state. For some it was quite enough that it be a normal state. Just like everyone else.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

Not the outcome any of us wanted.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.

I just wanted what was outside to be different.

I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

I'm preparing to be a mother one day and I really wanted to get inside the mind of a mom.

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.