All Quotes

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
‐‐ Nick Carter

I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
‐‐ Mackenzie Davis

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
‐‐ Peter De Vries

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.
‐‐ Stephanie Seymour

I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the 'Kitty' books.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra

I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier.
‐‐ George Foreman

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
‐‐ Christian Dior

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.
‐‐ Molly Sims

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.
‐‐ Laverne Cox

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I wanted to be free to try any silly thing I decided to do.
‐‐ Paul Lauterbur

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
‐‐ Robin Cousins

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
‐‐ David Bowie

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
‐‐ Nicholas Haslam

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.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.
‐‐ Miranda Lambert

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.
‐‐ Tom Smothers

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.
‐‐ Jennette McCurdy

I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
‐‐ Powers Boothe

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.
‐‐ Chad Kelly

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
‐‐ Sam Donaldson

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.
‐‐ Raina Telgemeier

I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.
‐‐ Guy Oseary

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
‐‐ Francisco Costa

I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
‐‐ Narada Michael Walden

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
‐‐ Sally Field

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.
‐‐ Stacy Keach

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

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, 'I want to look like them!'
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts.
‐‐ Terry Farrell

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.
‐‐ Jason Lee

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky