What We Wanted Quotes

I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

Given that I'm from the South, I wanted to do something to address that. I have been focusing more energy and resources on addressing those issues.

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.