Wanted Quotes

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.