All Quotes

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.
‐‐ Martin Lawrence

I wanted to try and trace the genuine origins of 'Johnny' and how he so successfully staged this takeover of 'Michael Pennington.' 'Johnny' is a contradiction to who I am as a person. I'm not very good at confrontation, I have a tendency to internalise and to carry things around.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.
‐‐ Tony Gilroy

I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.
‐‐ Daniel Wu

I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
‐‐ Veronica Webb

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
‐‐ Aimee Mann

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
‐‐ Richard Ernst

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.
‐‐ Kirby Larson

I wanted to use sports for social change.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.
‐‐ Florentijn Hofman

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.
‐‐ Cynthia Ozick

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.
‐‐ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
‐‐ Taylor Schilling

I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'
‐‐ John Lydon

I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.
‐‐ Chad Kelly

I wanted to win, even in practice.
‐‐ Bjorn Borg

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
‐‐ Jaye Davidson

I wanted to work; it's not right for a princess of the royal house to be commercial, so Andrew and I decided to make the divorce official so I could go off and get a job.
‐‐ Sarah Ferguson

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
‐‐ Ellen Burstyn

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
‐‐ Alec Baldwin

I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.
‐‐ Carmen Ejogo

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

I wanted to write.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
‐‐ Isaac Rosenberg

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
‐‐ Peter Bichsel

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
‐‐ Samantha Shannon

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.
‐‐ Troye Sivan

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
‐‐ Joe Elliott

I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan

I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
‐‐ Nigel Kneale

I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
‐‐ Claire Messud