Wanted Quotes - Page 27

• I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Song, Men, Actors

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

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• I wanted to be a radio announcer.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Radio, Announcers

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• When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Baby, Crazy, Reading

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• I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

  David Alan Grier

  Jobs, Acting, Wonder

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• I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

  David Alan Grier

  Men, Doctors, Black

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• I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

  David Alan Grier

  Voice, Creative, Artistic

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Dad, Hero, Kids

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• I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

  Ashley Jensen

  Bars, Littles, Lauren

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• I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

  Claire Forlani

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Hero, Kids, Thinking

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

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• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

  Nick Cannon

  Girl, Spiritual, Silly

  "Nick Cannon" by Corrie Pikul, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

  Lexa Doig

  School, Brain, Come Up

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• I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'

  Lea Salonga

  Heart, Cat, Opportunity

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Native American, Hair, Black

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

  Don Henley

  Player, Stuff, Busier

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

  Ron Moody

  Age, Actors, Five

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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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• They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Attitude, Mistake

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• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Country, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Baseball, Dream, Sleep

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• My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, what am I selling now? You're selling a good time.

  Morris Lapidus

  People, Design, Firsts

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• Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

  Christopher Durang

  College, Obsession, Film

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• I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

  Shirley Jackson

  Jobs, Home, Giving

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• I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Poetry, Awkward

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.112, Emblem Editions

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