Wanted Quotes

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

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.

Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

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.

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was four years old!

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

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 deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.

I wanted to be a painter.

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

I always wanted to play against the best.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

I'm competitive at everything.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to have something to do with the exploration and doing new things.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

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.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.