All Quotes

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I've always wanted to play a role in inspiring people to be better, to live higher quality lives and to feel good about the way that they look and feel.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
‐‐ Dominic Chianese

I've always wanted to play Jerry Seinfeld's son, actually, because he's the only person who anyone ever says I look like, in my entire - ever in my life.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
‐‐ Olivia d'Abo

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
‐‐ Vanessa Hudgens

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
‐‐ Dominic West

I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
‐‐ Katherine Waterston

I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.
‐‐ Jason Isbell

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
‐‐ Bryan Adams

I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.
‐‐ Sylvia Browne

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity.
‐‐ Pete Coors

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
‐‐ Elisha Cuthbert

I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton.
‐‐ Steve Nash

I've always wanted to sing country music.
‐‐ Julianne Hough

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
‐‐ Edith Piaf

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.
‐‐ Jeremy Abbott

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
‐‐ Elton John

I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
‐‐ Pat Boone

I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
‐‐ Nanette Lepore

I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
‐‐ Sakshi Tanwar

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf.
‐‐ Diane Sawyer

I've always wanted to win in my hometown.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
‐‐ Keith Haring

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.
‐‐ Amanda Latona

I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
‐‐ Darlene Love

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
‐‐ Tyler Perry

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.
‐‐ Kym Whitley

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
‐‐ Maggie Lawson

I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
‐‐ Ed Harris

I've always wanted to work with Sean Connery - there's something about his style, and his calm, cool demeanor that I find intriguing.
‐‐ Kelsey Chow

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.
‐‐ Howard Gordon

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.
‐‐ Matt de la Pena

I've always wanted to write an airport book.
‐‐ Elizabeth Hand

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.
‐‐ Grace Lin

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
‐‐ R. Kelly

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.
‐‐ Rick Yancey

I've always wanted two kids. I've always wanted a girl and a boy.
‐‐ Ana Ortiz

I've always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there - it's so cool.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.
‐‐ James Adomian

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.
‐‐ Ray Romano

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.
‐‐ James Frey

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

I've always worked.
‐‐ Alan Dershowitz

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.
‐‐ Peter Brook

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.
‐‐ Kristi Yamaguchi

I've always worked from images that already exist in our culture, and I just tweak them - I photograph my vision/interpretation of things that already exist, and I take it to the extreme. And then I make paintings or videos.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.
‐‐ Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up.
‐‐ Joey Dunlop

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
‐‐ Morris West

I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.
‐‐ James Marsh

I've always worked very hard.
‐‐ Andrea Riseborough

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
‐‐ Sam Raimi

I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.
‐‐ Neneh Cherry