Wanted Quotes

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.