Wanted Quotes · Page 99

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

— John Deacon

“In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.”

— Mark Barrowcliffe

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

— Nat Hentoff

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did…

— Alice Walker

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major…

— Owen Wilson

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone…

— Gemma Files

I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It', and they gave me the…

— Douglas Kirkland

. . . the whole idea of WHAT HAPPENED WAS.... is not about dating. It is more about people who are not…

— Tom Noonan

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a…

— Guy Pearce

I grew up with Westerns and it's just always something I've wanted to do.

— Ti West

I understand how much everyone wanted to see a British winner at Wimbledon and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I worked so…

— Andy Murray

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10…

— Eminem

All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.

— Steve Martin

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people…

— Anna Freud

If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people.…

— Avicii

I've done quite a lot of improv work before, and I wanted to do this film ["The Invisible Woman"] because it felt…

— Felicity Jones

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Ajax is a multicultural club, and we have found that many talented immigrant players quit when they reach puberty. So we wanted…

— Johan Cruyff

Ayrton Senna was my favorite driver who I wanted to be like.

— Lewis Hamilton

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at…

— Lance Armstrong

I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face…

— Evangeline Lilly

Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT…

— Robert Sutton Harrington

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could…

— Jack Kerouac

I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver,…

— Lindsay Fox

As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing…

— Peter Cushing

I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see…

— Jay Leno

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided…

— Clayton M. Christensen

I wanted BoJack to be more of a cautionary figure than someone that you aspire to be.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

— Richard Branson

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

— Andy Serkis

In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,…

— Warren MacKenzie

I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black,…

— Rapsody

If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are…

— Eddie Izzard

The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side…

— Molly Crabapple

In the beginning, yes. I didn't like it because I wanted people to know me by Gabriel Iglesias, not by Fluffy.

— Gabriel Iglesias

I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back…

— Andreas Deja

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long…

— Sally Field

[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.

— Alan Tudyk

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday,…

— Constance Marie