I actually have a young readers’ series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they’re these huge tough guys… they’re these gangsters, that they’ll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me… the crickets start to come out. They don’t really wanna fight.
I wanna meet Meryl Streep, so she can be my mama. I want Meryl Streep to be my mom in a movie.
I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don’t wanna make a song about how people think I’m this when I’m really that. I don’t wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.
Being the United States champion, it makes me elevate the title even more because, at the end of the day, that is what I wanna do. I wanna elevate the title, whether it be the world championship, the universal championship, any of these titles.
Pay attention to them kids, don’t let your feelings be hurt because they taking your place. They supposed to. But if you wanna stay around with them, you ain’t got to copy ’em. Just get the ones that’s real young, too young to even be copying yet, because you know they gonna be the next thing.
Guess what, Beyonce? White people like your music, too. White people buy your songs on iTunes, memorize your lyrics, and admire your talent and beauty. Little white girls wanna be like you just as little black girls do, but instead of that, you’d rather perpetuate the great battle of the races.
I wanna live.
History is important but… I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
I dropped out of arts school because I didn’t wanna stare at a computer all day – I get headaches.
Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I’ve seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren’t at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.
There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman – maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something – so call my agent!
I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.
I can’t tell you how many times I hit that mat, especially that first year, where I said to myself, ‘Man, this fake stuff hurts like hell. Do I really want to do this?’ And every time, I would come back, ‘Yeah, I wanna do this.’
I wanna do a song with Macklemore. I really wanna do a song with him.
People love to be U.K. music advocates but they don’t wanna give other types of music a chance so it can be as popular as this one sound.
A lot of actors overthink about the kind of roles they wanna do. I am open to kind of any kind of role.
When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, ‘Thank you’ because that means that I can take care of my family.
I don’t like to be put into a box. I don’t wanna be given a title – nothing.
I put so much online, and my heart is the only thing I don’t wanna – my heart, I need to myself.
When I first went up to WWE in 2003, they asked me who I wanted to wrestle, and I said, ‘I wanna go against The Rock.’
I just wanna be relevant.
When I was making my second record, I was in studio, and I was like, ‘No more ballads! Absolutely not!’ And somebody walked in with ‘The Man I Wanna Be’ and I heard it and was like, ‘Ah, crap!’
To a degree… you wanna make your way in the industry, so you kind of get what you’re given at first.
I wanna try doing a movie similar to ‘The Walking Dead,’ an action-horror, or something similar to ‘Lara Croft.’
I really – I just wanna sing. And I wanna show people that I can sing.
Lenny Kravitz is someone I wanna work with. But Prince for sure. He’s someone I’ve loved ever since I was in High School.
Although I’m a huge fan of Ben Kweller, I don’t think I’d cover one of his songs, simply because there’s just so much of my own stuff I wanna do.
I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the songs I’ve made, having fans and working with the people I work with aren’t chance. I know that dedication and work have gotten me to where I am and will get me to where I wanna go.
There are definitely a lot of creative people I want to work with. I wanna work with Drake!
‘Turtles’ was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We’d record it on the big VHS tapes, and I’d watch it before school, after school, on the weekend, wear the costume, have all the weapons.
You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it’s the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you’re still like, ‘Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.’ At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you’re just a human.
I don’t wanna look like a 65-year-old geezer, you know, and I can’t really see it happening.
I’m not as articulate as I’d wanna be.
Everybody the same: We all got problems. We all want to be loved. We all wanna be happy.
I’m just an actor. If it’s drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it’s a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don’t wanna be too serious.
There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it’s sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can’t do it in Finnish.
I wanna fight the best.
I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.
I want to help, and I wanna learn more about what’s going on in the world. I just wanna be alert.
Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don’t let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.
I wanna make music that helps people.
We did a version of ‘You Bet’ called ‘Wanna Bet’ in the U.S. a couple of years ago. It was a good little show but the network put it on over the summer on Mondays so nobody watched it.
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, ‘I don’t wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.’
I wanna be that glue guy: I want to be a guy my team and my coach can count on. That’s what I want to be.
I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.
I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.
You look at anything, and you’re like, ‘Is this as good as ‘Breaking Bad?” It took a while for me to stop comparing every project that comes my way to that. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to do ‘Life in Pieces.’ I just want something that’s a 180. I just wanna do something completely different.
I wanna be the most successful socially aware artist: Grammys, number one singles, albums, overseas and internationally-known household name, all that.
I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t afraid of who he was. That’s the part I emulate.
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene… or shoot the shot ’til they make me quit.
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time ‘cuz sometimes it’s just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they’re gonna say, ‘Oh my God, that’s Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.’
I love doing a lot of cardio. It’s not so much for the way I look. It’s for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.
You wanna be there for everybody, but it’s just not possible.
I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That’s your job, that’s what I’m paying you for. And I got it.
I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn’t get is that it just doesn’t happen. It doesn’t just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.
