Wanted Quotes
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I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.
Simon Callow
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When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.
Tracy Spiridakos
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Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.
Wendy Ewald
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I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.
Boots Riley
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I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.
Wes Anderson
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I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
Brandy Clark
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I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
Moira Kelly
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September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn’t looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.
Catherynne M. Valente
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It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.
Chuck Brodsky
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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.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.
Evan Esar
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I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
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He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.
Eloisa James
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
Will Self
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I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.
Jordan Pruitt
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When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part.
Ray Liotta
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We wanted it to be easier for the end user to let others join.
Eric Yuan
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I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.
Boi-1da
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I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.
Tommy Hilfiger
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I wanted to get as close as possible to death. No personal accounts are told in Shoah (1985), no anecdotes. It's only about death.
Claude Lanzmann
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Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
Ziggy Marley
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I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.
Ellen von Unwerth
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.
Margaret Bourke-White
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I really love music but I've always wanted to act.
Miranda Cosgrove