Growing up, my parents were very much about the Egyptian culture. They never really wanted to assimilate in American culture.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

I signed a deal with Satan because I wanted to get famous. Then I forgot I had a deal with Satan and then I got really famous.

It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.

He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

I wanted to play in the Premier League and Bolton offered me that opportunity at that time and that was why I signed for Bolton.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.

Once I figured out what I wanted to say in my music. As soon I recognized that and once I was living my truth, the money followed.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'

People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

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