Wanted Quotes

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

I really wanted to get out of England.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.