Wanted Quotes

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.

If I die tomorrow, will I have gotten everything in the world I've ever wanted? No. But I will have gotten everything that's made me happiest.

I always wanted to film 'Biggest Loser' in Hawaii. We could call it, 'Come on I wanna weigh you.'

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

I always wanted to go into acting.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Actually, I really wanted to play against Venus because I have so much respect for both Serena and Venus.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'