All Quotes

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
‐‐ Charlie Simpson

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.
‐‐ Gustavo Dudamel

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
‐‐ Luc Ferrari

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
‐‐ Robert Pattinson

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'
‐‐ Corey Haim

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
‐‐ Bruce Cockburn

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
‐‐ Stevie Ray Vaughan

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
‐‐ Rick Derringer

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.
‐‐ Rick James

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
‐‐ JoBeth Williams

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
‐‐ Antje Traue

I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.
‐‐ Mark Millar

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
‐‐ David Friedman

I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.
‐‐ Lennox Lewis

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.
‐‐ Sunil Mittal

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.
‐‐ Luc Besson

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
‐‐ Andy Griffith

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
‐‐ David Bowie

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.
‐‐ Bradley Wiggins

I wanted to put a sheet in explaining what all the songs are about, but they didn't do it.
‐‐ Dick Dale

I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all.
‐‐ Sissy Spacek

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
‐‐ Shirley Manson

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.
‐‐ Michael Gove

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.
‐‐ Shuji Nakamura

I wanted to quit the industry when I was eighteen and finish '70s', finish my contract on the show and go to college because I was pretty convinced that after '70s' and after being on a show for eight years that I would be very much pigeonholed for something specific that I didn't want to be a part of anymore.
‐‐ Mila Kunis

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
‐‐ George Lucas

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.
‐‐ Edwidge Danticat

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

I wanted to remind myself and others of the old Jim Crow, so that we can remind ourselves that we're still living in the new Jim Crow. I feel it's important to dress in the fashion of the times.
‐‐ Jidenna

I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people who were gay or lesbian or trans or people who aren't blonde haired and blue-eyed. I have short hair, and I am covered in tattoos. I like showing people that it's within their rights to be different.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
‐‐ Gary Sheffield

I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
‐‐ George Murray

I wanted to say thanks... and share my gratitude for everything I've been blessed with. Family, friends, and continued support from everyone.
‐‐ Travis Barker

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.
‐‐ Rita Rudner

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
‐‐ Kathleen Hanna

I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.
‐‐ Judd Apatow

I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
‐‐ Mike Posner

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
‐‐ James D. Watson

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
‐‐ Ted Shawn

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.
‐‐ Tom Leykis

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
‐‐ Tom Clancy