Wanted Quotes · Page 105

I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!

— Jason Ryles

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was…

— Celia Imrie

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for…

— Reggie Watts

There were a lot of reasons why I wanted to leave Arsenal.

— Freddie Ljungberg

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I…

— David M. Brown

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

— Charles Woodson

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm…

— Barbra Streisand

I wanted to ask you one day but the time never seemed right, but we started talking and...Hell, I don't even have…

— Pamela Clare

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that.…

— June Carter Cash

I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool,…

— Laura Mvula

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

— Barbra Streisand

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I…

— Jenna Fischer

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern…

— Stephenie Meyer

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it.…

— Julianne Moore

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their…

— Jillian Hervey

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front of…

— Lykke Li

Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at…

— Will Champlin

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

— David Levithan

A lot of people wanted me to play college football, but I wanted to get started playing pro baseball.

— Matt Holliday

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I…

— Mandy Patinkin

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I…

— George Steiner

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

— Elizabeth Hurley

Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for…

— Calvin Trillin

I've always said I've wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be…

— Gary Allan

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

— Jimmy Carter

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go…

— Billy Bragg

I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I…

— Jane Addams

It's not something I wanted to do, go overseas, but it was something that had to be done.

— Demetrius Andrade

I always knew I wanted to be a mom and not retire.

— Mackenzie Dern

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one…

— Jaime Pressly

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in…

— Josh Hutcherson

I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.

— Brad Paisley

The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was…

— John Petrucci

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with…

— Oscar Niemeyer

She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time…

— Djuna Barnes

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had…

— Paula Radcliffe

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went…

— Isaac Asimov

I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at…

— Richard Cotovsky