Wanted Quotes - Page 24

• I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.

  Justin Bartha

  New York, School, Kids

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• I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

  Matt Damon

  Trying, Labels, Dodge

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• If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

  Matt Damon

  Home, Bored, Library

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• If they'd wanted a nice parrot, they wouldn't have asked for me.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Nice, Parrots, Ifs

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• I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.

  Justin Long

  Home, School, Watches

  Interview with Fred Topel, www.cinemablend.com. August 14, 2006.

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• I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

  Leslie Mann

  Parent, Cookies, Lists

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  Natalie Wood

  Uprising, Hell, Knows

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• I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Book, Average, Feet

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• So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Ideas, America

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• I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?

  Jon Voight

  Class, Guy, Decision

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• And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

  Star Jones

  Long, Guy, Lists

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• I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

  Lisa Ling

  Kids, Partners, Mets

  "Mom2Summit: My Interview With Lisa Ling". Interview with Jill Cordes, fearlessfeistymamablog.wordpress.com. May 4, 2013.

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.

  Steven Yeun

  School, Doctors, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Cute, Crush, Dog

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• I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Kids, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Don Rickles

  Actors, Wells

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• I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

  Howard Zinn

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

  "Howard Zinn: 'History as a Political Act'". Interview with Raymond Lotta, revcom.us. December 20, 1998.

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• My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

  Etta James

  Mother, Singers, Jazz

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  Radha Mitchell

  Movie, Stars, Actors

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• Everybody thought that Titanic was the most romantic movie ever. A story about two teenagers who knew each other for three days. Try to make that movie with a couple that's been together for a few years. 'Get in the goddamn boat, Rose!' 'I don't wanna get in the boat!' 'Get in, come on, I'm freezing my ass off out here! I wanted to go to Jamaica, but no, we had to go on a cruise in the middle of the winter!' 'You never draw me naked anymore'

  Greg Giraldo

  Couple, Teenager, Winter

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• Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

  Keke Palmer

  Years, Names, Four

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

  Angie Dickinson

  Stars, Careers, Consistent

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• I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

  Willie Aames

  Idols, Typical, Want

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