“Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.” FirstsWellsWantedActorsSawsSingersPainterArabiaCarpenterLawrence Of Arabia Author:Michael Pitt
“I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.” WellsImportantWantedFilmThreeOpportunityMissing Author:Michael J. Fox
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.” FirstsWellsHeartWantedDesireMy HeartDancer Author:Phyllis Smith
“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.” NeedsWellsCountryStatesWantedValuesNeededUnionsSouthConservativeWelcomeCarolinaSouth CarolinaConservative Values Author:Nikki Haley
“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.” WellsPlayWantedLeftHurtPlayerMusicianBaseballBallsFingersPreacherBaseball PlayerMuddy Author:Muddy Waters
“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 decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?” IfsWantWritingWellsLongDoneMightWantedCausesDecidedSells Author:Janet Fitch
“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.” MenWorldWayWritingWellsLooksDoneWantedDifficultLeapImaginative Author:Anthony Minghella
“Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.” FirstsWellsWantedFirst Time Author:Felix Baumgartner
“What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.” PeopleTryingWellsSometimesHardWantedDealsStress Author:Walter Dean Myers
“I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.” WellsWantedDesirePerfectPoetScientistWho I AmObservationMake SenseDelightedAnalyzingNaturalistScience Love Author:Jane Goodall
“Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.” WellsWantedNewspapersReportersNewspaper Reporters Author:Buzz Bissinger
“I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.” WellsLittlesWarCountryWantedPiecesPeriodsPostsGermanyLittle TimePost War Author:Stephen Daldry
“I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.” WellsWantedActorsWell Rounded Author:Morgan Freeman
“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.” GivingWellsTwoDoneWould BeWantedChallengesNumbersHappenedTypeShotsDancingDanceBest Shot Author:Evander Holyfield
“This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.” FeelsWellsHandsWantedWalksMinesLike YouComfortComfortableShops Author:Roger Meddows Taylor
“I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.” WellsWantedFieldsMusic IsReflectionWideNativeNative AmericanTrumpetsAmerican MusicOpen Fields Author:Christopher Moore
“My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.” WellsLittlesWantedStrongChallengesGoneOffersDearLocalsMy TimeAcademic Author:Brenda Jackson
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.” KnowsLoveMindWellsLittlesLongPlayMightTodayWantedLastsBitsLove YouTearsSeriousMonthsOughtTerribleLittle BitArgumentVacationTime Love Author:Walter Cronkite
“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.” IfsWellsTwoDoneStoriesBigsWantedThreeFansProjectsShotsViolentFabulousWell Done Author:Morgan Freeman
“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
“I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.” YearsWellsSaidWantedDadMarriedMy DadMumDivorcedMarriage Is Hard Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“I’m glad the UFC wanted to work with me as well, and I think that they trust that I’ll never make them look bad. You never have to worry about me with a DWI or doing something crazy” ThinkingWellsLooksWantedWorryCrazyGladUfc Author:Jon Jones