Wanted Quotes

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

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.