Wanted Quotes

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.