Wanted Quotes

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.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

My mother always wanted to give back.

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.