Wanted Quotes

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

To be honest with you, 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.

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.

This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.