Wanted Quotes · Page 45

My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was…

— Magdi Yacoub

My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With Erin [from Paper Girls], I wanted to show what she might look like when she's 40, and I wanted it to…

— Cliff Chiang

I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him; it…

— Marina Abramovic

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

— Robert Breault

I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my…

— Johnny Carson

This way, if I did the album myself, and I produced it myself with my own label, it was going to be…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired…

— Jacqueline Bisset

You should never eat when you're on the toilet. "But I'm lactose-intolerant, and I always wanted to enjoy a bowl of Puffins…

— Daniel Tosh

At Pixar, I don't have to compromise at all. When I look at the finished "Toy Story 3," I don't sit and…

— Lee Unkrich

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with…

— Pamela Anderson

Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you…

— Cassandra Clare

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which…

— Alex Winter

I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer,…

— Roger Deakins

I sang before I acted, but I always wanted to do them simultaneously.

— Kevin McHale

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that…

— Majel Barrett

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one…

— Ezra Miller

I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.

— Jack O'Neill

Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline.…

— Henry Rollins

Let's be clear: Neither Secretary Powell or I opposed the notion of removing Saddam Hussein by force, but we wanted to avoid…

— Richard Armitage

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.

— Martina McBride

You want to be wanted, and you want people to rely on you.

— Tim Howard

We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to…

— William J. Clinton