Wanted Quotes · Page 443

All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an…

— Roger Deakins

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I…

— Oscar Isaac

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes…

— St. Vincent

I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going…

— Bob Richardson

When I watched the World Cup, I had the feeling that I wanted to be there.

— Leroy Sane

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love…

— Robert Greene

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was…

— James Corden

I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time.…

— Joey Lawrence

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the…

— Philippe Petit

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an…

— Toni Morrison

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

— Cynthia Kenyon

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I…

— Paul Bettany

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

— Richard Diebenkorn

With The Exorcist we said what we wanted to say. Neither one of us view it as a horror film. We view…

— William Friedkin

I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where…

— Cody Johnson

I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I…

— Dorothy Allison

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to…

— Meg Wolitzer

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.

— Glenn Kelman

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took…

— George R. R. Martin

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

— Tinashe

I would hope when I do blow up that I can keep that same mentality. I think I will because I'm the…

— SonReal

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

— Hutch Harris

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I…

— Peggy Orenstein

I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney.…

— John Lasseter

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a…

— Jules Verne

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

— Gloria Stuart

I wanted her body and soul, but body first.

— Philip Sington

I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

— E. L. James

I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to…

— Sharon Olds

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls…

— Bjorn Lomborg

I wanted people to hear directly from me that I have been diagnosed with ALS.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw…

— K-Maro

I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as…

— Nora Roberts

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So…

— Norman Finkelstein

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

— Maggie Smith

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome…

— Mehcad Brooks

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

— Katharine Hepburn

I wanted to work with an elephant.

— Robert Pattinson