All Quotes

I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.
‐‐ James Hetfield

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.
‐‐ Julian Schnabel

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.
‐‐ Niki de St. Phalle

I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those.
‐‐ Busta Rhymes

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.
‐‐ Shigeru Miyamoto

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.
‐‐ James Blake

I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
‐‐ Sidney Sheldon

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.
‐‐ Pete Docter

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
‐‐ Rick Baker

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.
‐‐ Cyndi Lauper

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
‐‐ Holly Johnson

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.
‐‐ Carmelo Anthony

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.
‐‐ Big Sean

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
‐‐ Edward Hall

I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.
‐‐ Rodman Philbrick

I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.
‐‐ Kesha

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry somebody who wasn't someone I had to be in any particular mood to want to be around - with close friends, you can be with them no matter what mood you're in.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I wanted to model when I was younger.
‐‐ ASAP Rocky

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
‐‐ Roy Harper

I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

I wanted to only collab with women for 'Lovers Holiday.'
‐‐ Theophilus London

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest that has exploded for such an incredible art form that I will forever be grateful to!
‐‐ Misty Copeland

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.
‐‐ Christian Cota

I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
‐‐ Dan Fogelberg

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.
‐‐ Junior Seau

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
‐‐ Joe Pantoliano

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
‐‐ Olivia Williams

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
‐‐ David Hasselhoff

I wanted to play baseball!
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.
‐‐ Allan Ray

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.
‐‐ Tipper Gore

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
‐‐ Charlie Watts

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'
‐‐ Matt Cohen

I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.
‐‐ Apolo Ohno

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
‐‐ Flea