What We Wanted Quotes

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

I wanted proof, not promises.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

She wanted him to notice her so much.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

I knew I wanted to be an actress when I was 9 years old.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled. And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

All I ever wanted to do was act.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.