Wanted Quotes

It's not about the money. This is about Terri. It's not about the Schindlers, it's not about the legislators, it's not about me, it's about what Terri Schiavo wanted.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.