Wanted Quotes

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

I always wanted to act.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a kids album that didn't annoy parents. I used The Beatles 'Rocky Raccoon' as sort of a starting place for my writing.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.