Wanted Quotes

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved.

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.