“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.” IfsI CanDifferentDoneWantedRecordsTvsActressesTheatreDancerDifferent ThingsSoap Author:Martine McCutcheon
“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.” ThinkingWritingDifferentWantedSongFolksObviousDifferent ThingsChordsProgressionFolk Music Author:Joanna Newsom
“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.” DifferentKidsWantedActorsFunChanceCoupleDifferent Things Author:Navid Negahban
“I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.” DifferentPlayCharacterWantedDifferent Characters Author:Stephanie Leonidas
“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.” WayDifferentPlayWantedSchoolOpportunityCreativeAbstractExploringSchool Experience Author:Brie Larson
“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.” YearsChildrenDifferentWantedMotherSocialGeniusYears AgoDoctorsBottomLawyerScalesCooksThirtyArchitect Author:Jacques Pepin
“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.” PeopleFeelsTryingBelieveLittlesDifferentWantedBitsDifficultDoorsHonestFindingsLittle BitUnderstoodLabelsClownKnocking Author:Emeli Sande
“At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.” DifferentWantedSchoolFatherAuthority Author:John Leguizamo
“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.” IfsArtDifferentWantedArtistLevelsRecordsSpecialAppreciateTitlesDifferent Levels Author:Matthew Sweet
“I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.” IfsWellsDifferentMightWould BeWantedOriginalsTrainRapHopsDifferent ThingsBack WhenGangstaBeing OriginalGangsta Rap Author:Will Ferrell
“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.” WritingTryingDifferentWantedSongPianoFlavor Author:Aimee Mann
“There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.” WantDoeDifferentWantedFilmYoungSidesRight NowDifferent Sides Author:Tarsem Singh
“I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentHardHelpingWantedHeardPersonalityGuitarHelp MeHouseholdBeing DifferentShowy Author:Martha Wainwright
“My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.” WayDifferentWantedInterestingChildhoodBrotherMy WayMy BrotherIntriguing Author:Martha Wainwright
“If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?” IfsWantMadeDifferentActionWantedChoicesSeriesLots Of MoneyDifferent Choices Author:Stephen Daldry
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.” MenShouldMindDifferentHomeWantedCultureAsksFeltMy OwnStudyStrangeHe ManMen And WomenMy FriendsDiscrimination Author:Malina Suliman
“When I came back from Pakistan, I wanted to take computer classes nearby. I asked my brother. I was in my home, cooking for my family, and all our relatives and guests. But I said, "I want to live my life as a woman, but I want to study." But, he told me, "Just study at home, you don't need to go out." He said, "If you go to the courses, what will our relatives say? They will lose respect for us." They told me, "We know you're feeling different, but we cannot do anything about it."” IfsKnowsWantNeedsSaidDifferentFeelingsHomeWantedCoursesLosesClassStudyBrotherComputerMy FamilyCookingMy BrotherGuestsLiving My LifePakistanHome Cooking Author:Malina Suliman
“I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.” WantDifferentDoneWantedCoursesFeltDramaActressesGreat ThingsErasThings To DoCostumesDifferent Eras Author:Carey Mulligan
“I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.” IfsKnowsWritingKindSaidDifferentEndsPlayWantedSongOrderPresidentRecordsOne ThingStyleConversationAskingPhonesHearingCuriousLabelsCollaborationDifferent KindsSoloDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Ryan Adams
“I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.” WayShouldMadeSaidDifferentWantedExperiments Author:Pablo Picasso
“What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.” DifferentWantedAnimalExtinctionVergeDifferent Animals Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.” FeelsDifferentWantedUsedHateCryMomDadBlueMy MomGirlfriendBlondeBeing DifferentMy GirlfriendMom And DadBlue Eyed Author:Kiana Tom
“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.” DifferentStoriesBigsWantedGuyAnimalRegretProudLosingBoxesExcitedScreensSomething NewSerenityGood StoryFireflyBig ScreenDifferent Animals Author:Joss Whedon
“I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I was asked if I wanted to do a Talking Heads album back in the late '70s, early '80s, and I was already working on a different project and didn't have time, so I never got the opportunity to work with them.” IfsDoeDifferentSometimesWantedArtistOpportunityTalkingOffersProjectsLateAlbumsProductionsWork OutAdmireInstance80sTalking Heads Author:Todd Rundgren
“I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.” KnowsTryingDifferentWantedMovingSoundNeededPressureSellsGenre Author:Tove Styrke
“I wanted to take my writing to another level. I wanted to write stuff that was personal for real. It's one thing to write a lyric that sounds nice in that line - that's not very tricky - but it's a different thing to write something that sounds nice and actually comes from someplace real.” WritingDifferentRealWantedStuffSoundLinesLevelsNiceOne ThingDifferent ThingsTricky Author:Tove Styrke
“As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.” TryingDifferentKidsWantedYoungActorsRolesPopsSeanYoung Actors Author:Matthew Lillard
“The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.” IfsWellsDifferentAbleWantedSidesNiceCuttingMinutesMoodBoundariesGreat ThingsDecentStrictMaxVinylDifferent Moods Author:Kate Bush
“My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.” DifferentPlayWantedFatherDadMy DadGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDotsDifferent Music Author:Elvis Costello
“My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.” DifferentPlayWantedJobsDadBandMajorsMy DadQuittingSteadyDifferent Music Author:Elvis Costello
“It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.” ImportantDifferentWantedArtistMy OwnAudienceConfidenceCompetition Author:Beverly Pepper
“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.” WantIdeasDifferentReasonWould BeWantedCoursesActorsFatherDecidedHatedDifferent Directions Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.” ThinkingArtDifferentBigsWantedFilmProduceAngelMediumsFeaturesAmbitious Author:Tom DeLonge
“I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.” DifferentPlayWantedLawyerSoccerAspirationDifferent ThingsSerendipity Author:Pete Wentz
“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.” WayGivingWritingYearsFirstsMeanDifferentWantedFormMastersExercisePagesTrainingVery GoodDamnThings To DoVersesCompelledWaltBalladsDays Of The YearFree Verse Author:Conrad Aiken
“I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.” KnowsDifferentDoneWantedColdWake UpHardestGet AwayWetHardest ThingMcdonaldsKevinFreezingAmazing Experiences Author:Channing Tatum
“I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.” DifferentSelfKidsWantedYoungPerspectiveImmigrantsBeing Different Author:Gloria Estefan
“I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that.” PeopleFirstsKindMeanDifferentHardPlayWantedGuyStuffStreetsPoetMaterialsPerceptionNotionDifferent Kinds Author:Matt Dillon
“When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.” DifferentWantedUsedGrowsComputerFasterSoftwareFrustratedHardwareComputer Software Author:Ward Cunningham
“The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.” PeopleWorldIdeasDifferentWantedCertainSubjectsWallTypeMonasteriesDifferent Ideas Author:Frederick Lenz
“You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.” KnowsLooksBookDifferentCharacterWantedFacesSportsRoomsSawsDucksBubbaDifferent FacesFunny Book Author:Bubba Smith
“It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.” DifferentWantedSecretComedySeriousTop Secret Author:Val Kilmer
“We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.” PeopleKnowsStillsTwoDifferentWantedTurnsNovelStorytellingMediumsVisualsFrankGraphicGraphic NovelsVisual Storytelling Author:Robert Rodriguez
“When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what you want to do, just like any mayor. You can park your car anywhere. You get the best women. You go to the restaurants and eat free. It was like being a rock star. Like being Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. It was just pure freedom, everything I was looking for. I desperately wanted freedom.” WantDifferentWantedStarsMagicRocksCarDrugPureWhat You WantParksRestaurantsGovernorsRock StarJohnsonJordanMayors Author:Rick Ross
“Ive always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.” PeopleWorldDifferentShowsKidsWantedSixDecidedShow MeMake Me Happy Author:Daniella Alonso
“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.” WayLooksI CanDifferentEyeWantedFeltTalkingDisappearMy WayPacksDifferent TimesPublic Eye Author:Amy Grant
“I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.” DifferentDoneWantedComedyDramaDifferent ThingsBops Author:Frank Oz
“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.” MindDifferentPlayWantedActorsParentMorningGuitarHorribleNoiseLoudSatDifferent ThingsElectricAstronautElectric GuitarChristmas Morning Author:Joan Jett
“It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by.” DifferentWantedHugeSurroundSibling Author:Nadya Suleman
“I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.” WayHas BeensBookDifferentSometimesHelpingProblemWantedOrderViewsPayAttentionMistakeMethodPoint Of ViewDifferent WaysEditorsUnderestimate Author:Margaret Atwood