Wanted Quotes

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

I was given a White House - well, you will have to ask the White House that. But I asked to attend the White House briefing because I was, you know, because I wanted to report on the activities there.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.