Wanted Quotes

'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.

I wanted to be a teacher.

Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.