My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on…

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

— Jane Campion

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

— Tony Curtis

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

— Art Buchwald

The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.

— Gloria Estefan

“The Kochs’ extensive research had shown that what the American “customer” wanted from politics, alas, was quite different from their business-dominated free-market orthodoxy. It…

— Jane Mayer

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the…

— Max Lucado

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that.

— Johny Hendricks

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

— Marianne Faithfull

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of…

— Kevin Sessums

“It was possible, Richard knew, to be away from home too long, to forget all the things you once knew by heart. He didn’t…

— Alice Hoffman

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if…

— Jeanette Winterson

In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when…

— Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

“Everyone, it seemed, whether a hardened criminal or a father of two, wanted to find some semblance of peace before exhaling a final breath.”

— Ania Ahlborn

“I’m quite certain that Mr. Drury will no longer be a problem.” She laughed again, though Robert could tell it was through tears. “Yes,…

— Cindy Anstey