What We Wanted Quotes

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

I hated being photographed and never wanted to go on red carpets, even though they always asked me to. My place was behind the scenes. I wasn't a diva. I preferred to look at life from the outside.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

I design for a woman who is on the go. Women are busier than ever, and I wanted to design a collection that can go from day to night and be fashionable. Sometimes I wear three outfits in one day.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.

Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.

When I decided to be a musician I was hoping that it would be one of my contributions in having a positive impact on the world. That's always what I wanted to do.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Why doesn't my stupid brain understand that I always wanted to be you? No you; no,no..you.Hey,you! now what are you smiling at.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives.

I came home for a week after I finished filming Rambo because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Thanks to my upbringing, I always believed in myself and worked as hard as I could to get where I wanted to be. Nothing was ever handed to me.

Eva [Braun] wanted him [Adolf Hitler] to look his absolute best and he just didn't care.

This is my dream and I'm living it. I've never wanted to do anything else except write songs and perform them

I always wanted to be really experimental.

I've never been starstruck but I may have wanted to strike a star once or twice.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend that's cuter than you?

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.

It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.