What We Wanted Quotes

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people.

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

I remember, as a young man, wanting to experience a car going at those speeds and being visually nourished by something which I loved so much. And I wanted to race fast cars and have a good time.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I didn't originally want to be an actor. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.

Wacko Glenn Beck is a sad answer to the Sarah Palin endorsement that [Ted] Cruz so desperately wanted. Glenn is a failing, crying, lost soul.

I don't make a deal with Sergeant Bergdahl, where we get Bergdahl, a traitor, and they get their five people that they most wanted. Five for one.

Mexico will pay for it [the wall], because they are not doing us any favors. They could stop all of this illegal trade if they wanted to immediately.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.