Wanted Quotes · Page 182

If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.

— Gilbert Gottfried

When I was a kid, I always wanted to dye my hair crazy colors.

— Dove Cameron

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

— Gertrude Stein

When I was young, I always wanted to be great at football.

— Jameis Winston

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

— Mimi Rogers

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

— Tony Robbins

“well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

— Jodi Picoult

The guitar is something I always wanted to learn.

— Jonita Gandhi

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can…

— Miles Davis

I wanted to do a summary of my life and career. There’s been so many different looks, and so many types of…

— Shania Twain

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am…

— Roy Lichtenstein

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,…

— Jack Kerouac

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I…

— Rob Corddry

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can…

— Preet Bharara

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my…

— Caterina Scorsone

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the…

— Kim Richards

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its…

— Cornelia Funke

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even…

— Robert Rodriguez

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to…

— Queen Latifah

A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them…

— Paul Auster

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Imagine that you wanted your children to learn the names of all their cousins, aunts and uncles. But you never actually let…

— Brian X. Foley

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

— Dick Bruna

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

— Jaime Pressly

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

— Robin Tunney

I always wanted to act in Karunakaran's direction.

— Nithiin

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

— Alain Gerbault

Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.

— John Green

I've always just wanted one shot, because you can turn that into something.

— Chris Harris, Jr

I was on the SWAT team in the FBI, and I had always wanted to be in SWAT.

— Christopher Voss

I've always wanted to be in the ring with 'Taker.

— Baron Corbin

“I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.”

— Sam Lipsyte

All I've ever wanted to do was to play for England. That ambition hasn't changed.

— Matt Le Tissier

“Then why the fuck did you still shoot me?” “Because I fucking well wanted to.”

— L.A. Witt

I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.

— Jamie Dornan

“At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.”

— Joe Hill

“it's not how you wanted it, but it's how it is”

— Katherine Center

I've always wanted to be a live singer and have dance be the complement.

— Mya