Wanted Quotations | Page 5

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

I always knew I wanted to have children.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!

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

God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age,

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I always wanted to play against the best.

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

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.