Best Wanted Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.”

Way Wanted Film Opportunity Masters Engineers

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

Trying Action Wanted Pain Felt Acting Study Plans New York Hero Needed Action Heroes

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

People Want Wanted Pieces Want Me Spotlight

Author:Jane Lynch

“I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.”

Want Years Stills Wanted Company Mark Accomplish Holding On Here And There Skateboarder

Author:Jason Lee

“Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.”

Made Wanted Mistake Trust Yourself

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.”

Years Wanted Five Discipline Scientist I Realized Narrative Five Years Neuroscience Labs Undergraduate

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.”

Way Play Wanted Levels Acting Dancing Meaningful Heal Broke Injured Violin Seventeen Ankles

Author:Kristin Lehman

“I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.”

Book Wanted Changed Changed My Life Perks

Author:Logan Lerman

“When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.”

Believe Persons Wanted Teach Impossible Sensibility Intuitive Seductive Leading Me Impossible Things

Author:Mark Leyner

“I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?”

Ifs Want Said Wanted Why Not

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.”

Mean Hard Wanted Dies Break Wanted To Die Taking A Break

Author:Melanie Laurent

“For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.”

Want Wanted Beautiful Projects Pressure American Movie

Author:Melanie Laurent

“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”

Reason Wanted Business Cowboy Midnight

Author:Jodie Foster

“I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.”

Writing Children Long Wanted Waiting Support Long Time Most Wanted

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.”

Wanted Individual Gone Issues Thirds Fourth Printing

Author:Mark Millar

“I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.”

Ifs I Can Different Done Wanted Records Tvs Actresses Theatre Dancer Different Things Soap

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.”

Wanted Growth Lawyer Phases

Author:Matthew McGrory

“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.”

Character Wanted Girl Nice Happened Scene Bed Universal Yeah Tied Being Nice Let Her Go

Author:Matthew McGrory

“Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.”

Persons Sometimes Wanted Forget Who You Are Inspired Be Inspired

Author:Mia Maestro

“I never wanted to marry Roger Clemens. I wanted him to do right by his family.”

Wanted Roger

Author:Mindy McCready

“I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.”

People Wanted Left Easy Living My Life Left Alone

Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”

Ifs Thinking Wanted Stage

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.”

Might Wanted Fighting Actors Failing Honorable Always Fighting

Author:Rooney Mara

“I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.”

Feels Years Said Care Kids Wanted Film Attention Tvs Cinema

Author:Samantha Morton

“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

Kind Wanted Servant Public Servants

Book:What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

Source: What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

“I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.”

Ifs Should Done Wanted Young Speak Class Should Have Grandma My Grandma

Author:Scotty McCreery

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Artist My Own Creative Starting Labels Classic

Author:Teena Marie

“When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.”

Mind Real Wanted Changed College Grew Grew Up Doctors Lawyer Occupation

Author:Tia Mowry

“I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.”

Kids Wanted Values Proud Be Proud

Author:Tim McGraw

“Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.”

Years Body Wanted Artist Guy Defined

Author:Todd McFarlane

“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”

Trying Firsts Hard Wanted Individual Sound Needed Fit Unique Really Happy One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.”

Trying Made Wanted School Girl Stuff Sports Hair Academic Uniforms Strict Ink Volleyball Nun Dip Other Girl Elementary School Sandpaper

Author:Zosia Mamet

“I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.”

World Way Firsts Wanted Found Creative Be Creative Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:B. J. Novak

“I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.”

Wanted Tvs Drama

Author:Chris Noth

“I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.”

Wanted Successful Being Successful

Author:Jimmy Nail

“Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.”

Ifs Made Shows Wanted Names Felt Fiction Novel Written Crime Thrillers Norwegians Scandinavians Scandinavia Crime Novels Rushdie

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

Thinking Writing Different Wanted Song Folks Obvious Different Things Chords Progression Folk Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.”

Art Wanted Sides Records Passionate Traditional Vulnerable

Author:Joe Nichols

“My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.”

Ifs Wanted Beautiful Doors Influence Opening I Love Him Sideways Hendrix Looking Down Opening Doors

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.”

Different Kids Wanted Actors Fun Chance Couple Different Things

Author:Navid Negahban

“Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.”

Years Light Wanted Courses Given Building Surprise Engineers Soar Headache

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.”

Wanted Moving Reader Computer Relevant Topics Storage

Author:Ted Nelson

“It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.”

Wanted Young Choices Mum

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.”

Men Feels Wanted

Author:Denise Van Outen

“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”

Wanted School Film Courses Community Class Study College Terrible University Going Away Auditions Community College

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.”

Two Wanted Mom Actresses Dancer Ballet Embarrassed Cliche Ballet Dancer Older Sister

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.”

Thinking Art Wanted Careers

Author:Frank Ocean

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Firsts Might Wanted Waiting Roles Dad My Dad Disappointment Auditions

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.”

Ifs Long Wanted America Term Radical Long Term Sugar Salt Radical Change

Author:Jamie Oliver

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