Wanted Quotes · Page 70

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why…

— Madonna Ciccone

In racing, I wanted to be a winner and to be a winner, you have to be willing to roll the dice.

— Bobby Rahal

Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in…

— Tim Harford

I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once…

— Jamie Lidell

I always wanted to be an actor, and then modelling came first. But I don't want to diminish the fact that I…

— Stephanie Corneliussen

As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.

— Yves Rossy

The whole first movie [Twilight] was pretty fun. I had never really done a movie like it, when there's such a big…

— Robert Pattinson

I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games.

— Ray Nitschke

Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing…

— Josh Turner

I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in…

— Mike Rowe

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best…

— Etta James

Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand…

— Christopher Moore

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep…

— Rick Riordan

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

— Anthony Marra

Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of…

— Chelsea Handler

Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle…

— Rosie O'Donnell

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they…

— Julie Taymor

I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight." "It wasn't something…

— Veronica Roth

I decided to give up the idea of being a priest before I decided I wanted to be an actor. I considered…

— James McAvoy

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted…

— Jojo Moyes

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find…

— Edmund White

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'…

— Patti Smith

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship…

— Max von Sydow

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

— Brooks Koepka

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was…

— Hailee Steinfeld

Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…

— Sylvia Plath

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

— Demis Roussos

You didn't have to be a huge rock star; you just had to do well enough to continue doing what you wanted…

— Michael Azerrad

When I decided to come to Inter, I did so because I am an Inter fan and because I wanted to win…

— Mauro Icardi

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop,…

— Roger Bannister

I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

— Rick James

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually…

— George Lucas

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted…

— Anthony Davis

I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But…

— Yukimi Nagano

I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly…

— Jay Kay

What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own…

— Kevin Brockmeier

I always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim