In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

Paul Gascoigne was one who I watched as a young boy. He was a hero to all of us really. Chris Waddle was one…

— Gary Cahill

My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.

— John Motson

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?

— George Best

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..

— Glenn Hoddle

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

— Alexandra Cassavetes

My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.

— David Furnish

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

— Georges Bizet

We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

— Roy Wood

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take…

— Anton Corbijn

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

— Margaret Atwood

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get…

— Mickey Rooney

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

— Tom Wopat

The song 'Why' was always in my head. Three or four years, I always wanted to do a song called 'Why' and just ask…

— Jadakiss

“This wasn't going to last anyway. He'd have ended things in another fifty or sixty years with her. He'd never wanted anything permanent with…

— Mathewson R.L. Perfection A Neighbor from Hell

You see, I read reviews of people like Paul Simon, and they don't talk about the fact that he's looking old or whether he…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan