Wanted Quotes · Page 139

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

— Danny Aiello

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

— Lady Gaga

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

— Jon Lovett

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

— James Patterson

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

— Ernest Gaines

I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.

— Mindy McCready

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

— Carl Honore

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

— Gabriel Mann

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

— Wes Bentley

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless…

— Gia Coppola

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my…

— Conway Twitty

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has…

— Salvador Dali

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

— Sylvia Day

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere,…

— Michael Chabon

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

— Phoebe Snow

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to…

— Tana French

Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in.…

— Judd Nelson

I'm living the life that I wanted to live and I'm loving every little thing that I do. Fortunately, I have had…

— Tarsem Singh

But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so…

— Nicholas Stoller

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted…

— Anonymous

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short…

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And…

— Nina Arianda

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my…

— Richard Flanagan

Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down'…

— Ewan McGregor

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

— Tracy Chevalier

You can have everything you want as long as you don't want it badly enough.

— Yogi Berra

More than I've wanted anything, I've wanted to do well at the X Games.

— Gus Kenworthy

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself

— Lloyd Bridges

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

— Peggy Fleming

I was into the Police. I dyed my hair white-blond and wanted to be Sting.

— Jason Bonham

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

— Uma Thurman

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I never wanted to just be on Broadway, I wanted to be Simba.

— Caleb McLaughlin

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

— Moss Hart

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.

— L'Wren Scott

It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.

— Margaret Atwood

I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

— Andrew Lansley

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

— Tom Green

Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.

— Gloria Trevi