Wanted Quotes · Page 174

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

— Tina Yothers

The band we have now on stage is the band I always wanted to be in.

— James Young

When I wanted to join the Pandoras, my mom had an anxiety attack.

— Kim Shattuck

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

— Anne Rice

I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.

— John Dyer

When I was younger, I wanted very much to play football.

— Andris Nelsons

When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

— Giles Deacon

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

— Diana Silvers

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because…

— Jodi Picoult

“Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest…

— Faith Sullivan

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

— Britney Spears

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

— Grant Morrison

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew…

— Simon McBurney

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't…

— Tilda Swinton

I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from…

— Asa Butterfield

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I…

— John Logan

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started…

— David Sedaris

I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I…

— Cedric Yarbrough

I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just…

— Gerry Harvey

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to…

— Haruki Murakami

I remember the days of auditioning and being nervous and so I really didn't want to make people have to jump through…

— Angelina Jolie

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill…

— Angus Young

Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,…

— Thomas Sowell

Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and…

— Stuart Hill

After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.

— Clive Cussler

I have wanted to have children. I do want to have children.

— Kevin Spacey

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

— Ian Rankin

“I wanted it, I wanted it, I wanted it, but the moment it was mine, it ceased to interest me.”

— David Sedaris

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

— Jason Bonham

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

— John Peel

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

— Tupac Shakur

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

— Adam Driver

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

— Gulzar

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

— John Mayer

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

— Gerald Green

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

— Logic

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

— Schuyler Fisk

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

— Roland Barthes

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

— Margot Fonteyn

I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.

— Jimi Hendrix