Wanted Quotes · Page 83

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

— David Geffen

“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I chose a public platform to come out. I wanted to have an impact with it.

— Gus Kenworthy

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

— Jim Henson

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

— Paul Scholes

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

— Marlene Dumas

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

— Penn Jillette

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

— Goran Ivanisevic

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but…

— Phil Anselmo

I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.

— Kelsea Ballerini

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman,…

— Eve Arnold

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.

— Anonymous

My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier…

— Morena Baccarin

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to…

— Kristofer Hivju

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid…

— Mike Myers

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I…

— Richard Blumenthal

Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide…

— Monica Bellucci

In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so…

— Tama Janowitz

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was…

— Dana Carvey

When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very…

— David Letterman

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until…

— Bernard Cornwell

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in…

— Edmund White

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of…

— Leon Jouhaux

There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the…

— Reginald Hudlin

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

— Dorothy Parker

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

— Ashkan Kooshanejad

Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted.

— Sonia Rykiel

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

— Metta World Peace

I get to attempt great feats. That's all I ever wanted.

— Mike Perry

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

— Richie Ashburn

I wanted nothing but for that trust again and brick by brick you would take it.

— All That Remains

I wanted to conquer Hollywood. But I took one shot and that's it for me.

— Sammo Hung

“You recognize her?” He actually looked stricken. “She wanted to buy a gun.”

— Gillian Flynn

Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.

— Don Rickles

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

— Charles Bukowski

“You can have anything you want in life, if you'll give up the belief that you cannot have it.”

— Richard Dotts

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

— Jennifer Coolidge

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

— Steve Wozniak

But she'd wanted him there and there he was. A lamb ready for slaughter.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“You said you wanted the truth. Now what are you willing to do with it?”

— Monika Zands