Wanted Quotes

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

I always wanted to be a mom.

To me, it didn't matter where I played, I just wanted to play well.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.