“I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.” WayLittlesDreamWantedBitsMy OwnRoomsBoysBrotherLittle BitStrikesSupposed To BeDesperateOscarsMessyCarelessStickyLittle BrotherMy Little Brother Author:Nate Berkus
“One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.” ReasonFeelingsWantedFightingGamesLostSituationBoysKnowingTroubleDangerGrewComfortableGrew UpToughAreasUncomfortableNot KnowingDublinUncomfortable Situations Author:Conor McGregor
“As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.” ThinkingWantedSchoolBlackBoysFitToughNegativeTeethTeenagerPrintAll BlackYearbook Author:Ronnie Shakes
“My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.” LittlesI CanWantedUsedRoomsBoysBaseballTragedyShoesComplainingComedianLeagueGrandmotherTypicalBentMy GrandmotherNeuroticUps & DownsSuburbsLittle LeagueGreat TragedyLittle League Baseball Author:Jon Stewart
“I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.” SaidWantedMovingGuyDealsBoysDevelopmentMetsHollywoodLots Of MoneyMotion PicturesMarching On Author:Craig Ferguson
“Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.” WorldMeanArtStillsUseWantedFilmPurposeArtistProcessBornBoysApproachSellsCreatorRadicalVisualsGreat ArtAnimatedAdmirableGreat ArtistAnimated Films Author:Alex Abreu
“We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMomentsKidsWantedBeautifulPerfectEmotionVisionBoysDrivenHallucinationsBeautiful Moments Author:A. R. Rahman
“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.” DifferentWould BeWantedTogetherFeltVoiceEffortEmotionBoysCuttingHeardGoes OnSceneFinalsBe GoodDifferent EmotionsDido Author:A. R. Rahman
“I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.” KnowsWayReasonWantedBrainBoysFantasyBecomingNormalOpeningCorpsesSkullsAssistantsOpening UpNeurosurgeons Author:Joseph Brodsky
“This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?” KnowsFeelsMeanLittlesI CanDoneWantedUsedGirlLiteratureBoysOur LivesEmpathyMalesDrivenPlotPeterBellsTomsProtagonistsFellasWendyGreat LiteratureSawyerBecky Author:Meryl Streep
“I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody.” PeopleLittlesWholeKidsWantedStuffBoysCollegeWaveDirtGetting OldGetting OlderMy Boys Author:David Spade
“Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.” PeopleWantEndsWholeWantedCommonBoysLaughingAcceptanceDadNormalMy DadAcceptedWhole LifeNosesWipePeanutsScrewed UpPeanut ButterGood Boy Author:Christopher Titus
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.” WantHelpingRealityHappensWantedAmericaSexBoysRocksDrugHappeningsPhotographRock N RollMake It HappenSex Drugs Author:Bob Richardson
“If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else.” IfsFeelsLittlesMadeWantedStrongBoysTroubleReleaseEmpoweredBad DayPiercingsHaving A Bad Day Author:Christina Aguilera
“Well it was a lot fun with John Boy and stuff, but I always knew that I wanted to be on the front of the stage even when I was playing drums. I don't have anything against John Boy, I just wanted to be on the front of the stage.” WellsWantedFunStuffBoysStageFrontsPlaying Drums Author:Eddie Montgomery
“Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted to be in love, get married, have kids and buy a wood-paneled station wagon for the family. But it didn't work out, and, boy, it wrecked it!” FirstsWellsHeartKidsWantedGuyBoysBrokenMarriedFirst TimeWork OutWoodsTragicStationsWagonsHeart Broke Author:Jamie Foxx
“I'd always wanted to make a record with Jim Dickinson, and I'd known about his boys for years, ... He reminded me that when they were 13 or 14 years old they had a punk rock band and I'd called him and wanted to make a record with them then.” YearsWantedKnownBoysRecordsRocksBandPunkPunk RockRock Bands Author:John Hiatt
“Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.” WantedTurnsJesusChristBoysJesus ChristCatholicCheeksTurn The Other Cheek Author:Jim Carrey
“I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do.” ThinkingI CanWantedYoungCan DoBoysLimitsAcceptedCleverVery Clever Author:Paul Auster
“I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsWould BeWantedGuyThreeBoysEnvironmentNew YorkGrewReaderGrew UpConnectedLike MeMultipleNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“With my solo music, I really try to step out of the box and do stuff I don't get to do with the boys. I wanted it to be fun, rock-infused and try some new things while going back to my roots. "All American" the song is one of my favorites from the album, which is why I chose to title the album after it. To me, it's the perfect song to represent the feel of the album.” FeelsTryingWantedSongFunStuffPerfectStepsBoysRocksRootsAlbumsBoxesTitlesNew ThingsSolo Author:Nick Carter
“I've been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn't want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn't understand why I couldn't.” WantPlayWantedBornBoysFootballFeministDolls Author:Lizzy Caplan
“I very much had wanted to do a picture with more humor than what I had been allowed to do earlier, which is what attracted me to Wonder Boys so much. I found it funny in a very serious way, which is the best kind of comedy.” WayKindWantedFoundWonderBoysComedySerious Author:Curtis Hanson