Wanted Quotes

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!

If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.