Wanted Quotes

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.