Wanted Quotes

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.