Wanted Quotes

I had about the biggest, longest wish list anyone could have, and 99 percent of what I wanted to get on the screen we got on the screen within our schedule and within our budget and within our resources.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band. I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

I really wanted to get out of England.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.