All Quotes

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
‐‐ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.
‐‐ Bertha von Suttner

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
‐‐ Bob Edwards

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
‐‐ Ken Follett

I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular.
‐‐ Charlotte McKinney

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.
‐‐ Andrew Cherng

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
‐‐ George Harrison

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
‐‐ Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
‐‐ Katy Perry

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
‐‐ Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best in the world.
‐‐ Emerson Fittipaldi

I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.
‐‐ George Foreman

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
‐‐ Juliet Stevenson

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.
‐‐ Bas Rutten

I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
‐‐ Lisa Kudrow

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
‐‐ Alice Sebold

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
‐‐ Clint Black

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.
‐‐ Olivier Martinez

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.
‐‐ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
‐‐ Philip Emeagwali

I wanted to become a model and an actress.
‐‐ Anna Nicole Smith

I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.
‐‐ Marisa Berenson

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
‐‐ Goh Chok Tong

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends.
‐‐ Chris Pine

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.
‐‐ Dean Winters

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Wood

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.
‐‐ Dolph Lundgren

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
‐‐ Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

I wanted to better inform the world.
‐‐ Ted Turner

I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster.
‐‐ Mike Posner