Wanted Quotes
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I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.
David Shapiro
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
Sarah Dessen
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
Chantal Joffe
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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
Tim Robbins
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I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.
Rebecca Mader
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At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.
Erika Christensen
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I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York City. They would never put me into acting. I just kind of wanted it, and I told them that.
Julia Garner
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I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.
Paul Pierce
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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Life wasn't like that before, and I couldn't previously accept that things might not work out the way I wanted.
Jim Sonefeld Hootie & the Blowfish
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When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.
Rich Brian
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I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
Molly Ringwald
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Lois McMaster
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All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
Steve Martin
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I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.
Mo Ibrahim
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I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Sheila Heti
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I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
Eva Zeisel
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I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.
Sarah MacLean
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We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as well as they could. Our team was too big and too good to intimidate.
Willie Lanier
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
Seneca the Younger
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I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
Sharon Stone