Wanted Quotes
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I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.
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I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.
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It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.
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Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.
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I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
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I've always wanted to be a star.
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I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway
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The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.
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I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
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I'm extremely proud. We talked this morning and everything he said he wanted this team to do, it's done. It's really amazing to see.
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When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
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I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.
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I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.
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It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.
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When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
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I always wanted to go in a cave.
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The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.
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When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.
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I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.
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In the first half, we allowed them to do whatever they wanted.
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I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
