Wanted Quotes

I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.