I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.
I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.
I’m a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I’d just get worried.
As a child, I always wanted to be a race car pilot.
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity; it’s too mortifying.
Even at my lowest point, when I’ve wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I’m all that I have.
I loved acting and wanted to be a leading man. But I decided I’d rather be a big fish in the stuntman pond than a little acting fish. I guess I must have made the right decision.
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
I always wanted to be a princess like Cinderella.
As soon as I finished ‘Doctor Foster,’ I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.
Some people wanted me deported – as if you can be deported to Puerto Rico.
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I’d learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She’s an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
I’ve always wanted to play Jerry Seinfeld’s son, actually, because he’s the only person who anyone ever says I look like, in my entire – ever in my life.
A dark, fantastic adventure set in an alternate 1900s Asia, ‘Monstress’ is buried deep in the supernatural. It’s a story I’ve wanted to tell for a long time – it just took me awhile to put all the pieces together.
I wrote ‘Oath’ for Cher Lloyd because there were really no best-friend anthems out there. Not only did she love it, she wanted me to rap on it, too!
I’ve always been a guy who’s pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave – in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army’s most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.
On my income tax 1040 it says ‘Check this box if you are blind.’ I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
There are two kinds of people… There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I’ve always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.
I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I’ve wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.
All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say ‘No’ and said ‘Yes’.
I had offers to go overseas and play basketball but I turned it down because I wanted to stay local. So I got started in Jiu Jitsu, which was something I could be competitive at.
I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It’s one of those places I’d always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, ‘Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.’
At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you’re cute, I guess.
Since I was 8 years old, I wanted to be a talk show host.
I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along.
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can’t hang up his guitar when it’s clear to everyone else that he should.
I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.
The thing about ‘On the Doll,’ I was doing ‘Nip/Tuck’ at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I’ve ever done before.
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.
I don’t write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in ‘Stiff,’ I wanted to change people’s hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
I suppose we’ll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn’t put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, ‘Ah, he can play.’ And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling ‘turn it down!’
My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn’t come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I’d realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that’s how television happened.
When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets’ Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn’t yet know the word ‘foreshadowing.’ Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
I wanted it to be back to a state where it felt like it was thriving, so I think that my hair’s happiest natural, and there’s that hairstyle for everyone where you feel like, ‘My hair is agreeing with this,’ so I just cut it off recently again, and I’m going back natural.
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, ‘Yeah!’ I didn’t even ask what it was.
I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn’t hearing.
I think, after ‘Let Her Go,’ I wanted to show people that I don’t just write really sad love songs about my ex-girlfriend: that there’s another side to Passenger as well that’s a bit more up-tempo and more inclined to social commentary.
As an artist, I’ve always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
I have always wanted a bunny and I’ll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
Growing up, I’ve always wanted to be a rock star.
I had a mild case of polio – not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I’d missed out on a lot of nature.
Until ‘Moonlight,’ I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of ‘groundbreaking’ or ‘never before.’ We were ascribed those things. They weren’t the point.
