Wanted Quotes · Page 190

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

— Gilbert Gottfried

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

— Letta Mbulu

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

— Paul Reubens

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

— Lindsay Lohan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

— Bob Dylan

“All I ever wanted was you. Oh, my love. My only love.”

— Elizabeth Anthony

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

— Alessia Cara

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk…

— Curtis Stone

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we…

— Debbie Ford

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it…

— Alison Bechdel

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way…

— Mitch Kapor

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his…

— Lisa Kleypas

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

— Rachel Dratch

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

— Sean Parker

I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang…

— Nick Bantock

'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have…

— Larenz Tate

[ Blue is the Warmest Color ] was really a film about two people having to go through a relationship which everyone…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came…

— Ann Voskamp

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid.…

— Mike Myers

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who…

— Chris Rock

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided…

— Bill Gates

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura'…

— Josh Hutcherson

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

— Caroline Flack

“Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.”

— Margaret Atwood

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

— Minka Kelly

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

— Clarence Clemons

I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me.

— Tanya Saracho

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.

— Vusi Mahlasela

I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

— Jackee Harry

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

— Johnny Winter

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

— Michael Owen

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

— Herta Muller

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

— Lennox Lewis

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

— Michael Keaton

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

— Norodom Sihanouk

Personally, I always wanted to do a rom-com or an action film.

— Sunny Singh