Wanted Quotes

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

I've always wanted to sing country music.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

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.