To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

I've always kinda wanted to work with Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, and people like that. Probably Will Smith, too.

Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.

I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I wanted to do.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

I wanted to be Jon Bon Jovi and Bono. But I'm not that cool. I don't need to be. I'm not a rock star. I am who I am.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

It was crazy how many clubs wanted me - it shows how well you're doing, but I always felt Dortmund was right for me.

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.

'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of.

When I was in high school, I wanted to be so thick that I'd eat all the pizza and all the McDonald's and everything.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

I'm very moody when it comes to food. Even before pregnancy I would just get very specific with things that I wanted.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

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