Wanted Quotes - Page 3

• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  Lou Holtz

  Fields, April

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• Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

  Victoria Wood

  Party, People, Luck

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• I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Commitment, Thinking

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it!

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Father, Unconditional Love

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• I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

  Rem Koolhaas

  Architecture, Contemporary

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• I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.

  Criss Angel

  Art, People, Psychology

  "Interview With Criss Angel". Interview, parade.com. August 28, 2007.

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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• I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

  Roger Vadim

  Girl, Boys, Differences

  "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

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• When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Writing, Firsts

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  Webb Simpson

  Success, Winning, Lazy

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• When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

  Ken Hensley

  Mistake, Long, Band

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• My time as showrunner on The Walking Dead has been an amazing experience, but after I finish season three, it’s time to move on. I have told the stories I wanted to tell and connected with our fans on a level that I never imagined. It doesn’t get much better than that. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this journey.

  Glen Mazzara

  Moving, Journey, Walking Dead

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• I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

  Joe Shuster

  Character, Artist, Thinking

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• As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know.

  Faye Wattleton

  Eugenics, Numbers, Leader

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

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• In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Mom, Kids, Parent

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• I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

  Prabal Gurung

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• New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

  Michael Arad

  New York, Israel, Ifs

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• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Hollies, Musical, Pay

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• My Daddy was left-handed, and I was left-handed when I was little. In fact, I was left-handed all the way to high school. Then I switched over to right-handed cause I wanted to play shortstop.

  Luke Appling

  School, Play, Daddy

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• Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Waiting, World, Chemist

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• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  Edwin Moses

  School, College, Medical

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