Wanted Quotes

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I wrapped "Buffy" and I always felt on "Buffy" that they wanted to keep me younger for a specific reason. It seemed like I was getting younger every year that I was on the show. I think there was a reference to me being 15, then 14.

The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.