All Quotes

I really wanted to be a Broadway kid.
‐‐ Reese Witherspoon

I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.
‐‐ Charice Pempengco

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.
‐‐ Robin Wright

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.
‐‐ Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I really wanted to be a writer.
‐‐ Nancy Meyers

I really wanted to be Ambassador to Argentina.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized. It was just so much more important to take care of my baby and take care of myself in a healthy way; so now, it's been a slow process, but I'm back in shape.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
‐‐ Fisher Stevens

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.
‐‐ Robin Tunney

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
‐‐ Michael Stipe

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

I really wanted to discover mummies, like Indiana Jones.
‐‐ Svante Paabo

I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.
‐‐ Craig T. Nelson

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.
‐‐ Elizabeth Reaser

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
‐‐ Amar Bose

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
‐‐ Rachael Harris

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
‐‐ Neko Case

I really wanted to get out of England.
‐‐ Jared Harris

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
‐‐ Irvin Mayfield

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
‐‐ Marion Ross

I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community. I had some friends who had moved out to Chicago and had said really good things about it and about the work. I didn't care at that time about making money.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.
‐‐ Markus Persson

I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
‐‐ Baltasar Kormakur

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.
‐‐ Tracy Anderson

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
‐‐ Ariel Pink

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.
‐‐ Miyavi

I really wanted to work and become independent.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.
‐‐ Brody Armstrong

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
‐‐ Sting

I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
‐‐ Samira Wiley

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
‐‐ David Nicholls

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
‐‐ Patricia Richardson

I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.
‐‐ Ben Schwartz

I really was kind of like a musical nerd. I would watch VH1's 'Behind The Music.' That was heavy when I was a kid. I would sit up and want to watch that all day instead of going outside sometimes.
‐‐ Rico Love

I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.
‐‐ Joel Silver

I really wasn't a class clown.
‐‐ Kevin James

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul