Wanted Quotes

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.

With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.