I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted.
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make
I always wanted to be a leading man!
I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.
If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.
I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.
I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.
I knew that maybe I couldn't be playing again, but I just wanted to get in physical shape.
I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.
I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.
I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.
I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.
I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.
I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.
I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.
When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough
I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear
I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.
I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
I wanted to help women and their families.
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
All I ever wanted to be was happy.
I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
I always wanted to sing, as a child.
There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.
I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
It used to be you wanted to marry up.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.
I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.
I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something
You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
I've always wanted to do a family movie.
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
I wanted to model when I was younger.