Wanted Quotes

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

All I wanted to be was a player.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people - and certainly working moms - are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.

I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.