All Quotes

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
‐‐ Dennis Farina

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
‐‐ Tino Sehgal

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.
‐‐ Deborah Cox

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
‐‐ Josh Holloway

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'
‐‐ Pink

I wanted to do 'Matrix' because when I saw the first one, I was in Paris, and I came out from the movie and said, 'Wow - I've never seen something like that; it's so incredible.'
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.
‐‐ John Paul DeJoria

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
‐‐ Gene Kelly

I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
‐‐ Jody Watley

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

I wanted to do something as an extension of my passion for music. My aim for the STREET by 50 On-Ear Wired Headphone range is to present music as it's meant to be heard, in studio-mastered sound.
‐‐ Curtis Jackson

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
‐‐ Tori Amos

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
‐‐ Mira Sorvino

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

I wanted to do 'Texas Trilogy' on stage. But it didn't do well in New York. In fact, it did very badly there, thanks to the critics. It was said that Preston Jones, the author, died of ulcer complications, but the truth was that the critics killed him.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.
‐‐ Jon Crosby

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.
‐‐ Nuno Bettencourt

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.
‐‐ John Singleton

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
‐‐ Giorgio Armani

I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the 'New York Times.' I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the things you want and also feel silly for wanting. I wanted readers to say they'd enjoyed something of mine - to see my photo in magazines where I'd seen photos of other writers.
‐‐ David Lipsky

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
‐‐ Leander Paes

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
‐‐ Zhang Ziyi

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
‐‐ Dara Horn

I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.
‐‐ Matt Reeves

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.
‐‐ Martin Donovan

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
‐‐ Jermaine Dupri

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.
‐‐ Paul Parker

I wanted to fight guys like Shane Moseley, Miguel Cotto, and Alvarez.
‐‐ Liam Smith

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.
‐‐ Robert Edwards

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job.
‐‐ Dawn Olivieri