Top 100 All I Ever Wanted Quotes
#1. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
Paul Weller
#3. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.
Anne Lamott
#4. I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.
Noel Wells
#5. Yes," she whispered against his mouth. "I'll be yours. And that makes you mine as well, you know. You ready for that?"
He grinned. "It's all I ever wanted.
Jill Shalvis
#6. All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
Laura Linney
#8. All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that. ALBUS
John Tiffany
#9. All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.
LL Cool J
#10. To be your friend was all i ever wanted, to be your lover was all i ever dreamed.
Matt Trevitz
#11. It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.
George Ezra
#12. Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Brion James
#13. Nothing else ever mattered to me, and you weren't even real. All I ever wanted was you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#14. My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels - and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs.
Emma Thompson
#15. I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it.
Tim Field
#16. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
Gavin O'Connor
#17. All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve Binchy
#18. In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.
Mare Winningham
#20. All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.
Ozzy Osbourne
#21. you're all I ever wanted
and worth dying for too
Richard Siken
#22. All I ever wanted
Was to know that you were dreaming ...
Stevie Nicks
#23. I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
Paul Weller
#24. All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.
Steve Kazee
#25. All I ever wanted and needed was love. Everyone had it, but me. What did I do to deserve -
Kaixo
#26. I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that.
Scott Ian
#27. I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.
Cheryl Ladd
#28. I never asked to be the world's hero. All I ever wanted was to be yours.
Nicole Williams
#29. I've tapdanced since I was 11 years old. I always wanted to be a tapdancer, and that's all I ever wanted to be.
Mitch Hewer
#30. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.
Carolee Dean
#31. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi
#32. Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do.
Marilu Henner
#33. Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
Sarah Dessen
#34. All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.
Rick Ross
#35. Acting. It's the number one thing I love to do. That's why when people ask me what else I'd love to do, I have no answer - this is all I ever wanted to do.
Freddie Stroma
#36. I have only a general sense of the pain, of not being able to control my body and my thoughts. All I ever wanted was to have control- to be in charge of myself and the rest of the world.
Samantha Schutz
#37. Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster
#38. I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson
#39. All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people
John Peel
#40. Mom. Mom, I ... All I ever wanted was for you to smile at me. If you praised me just a little bit or touched my cheek ... you'd make me so happy, I would cry.
Sakura Tsukuba
#41. I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.
Nate Ruess
#42. That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle ... Be a professional wrestler.
Tommy Dreamer
#43. I have been a print reporter my whole career. It's all I ever wanted to be. I specialize in political profiles. I have probably profiled hundreds of people over the years, people in very powerful positions. People don't always like what I write, but most people still talk to me.
Mark Leibovich
#44. Musicians play music because you love ... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.
Peter Criss
#45. My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
Hamish Bowles
#46. All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that."
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Robin Hobb
#47. All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
Jack Nicklaus
#48. All I ever wanted was for you to look at me.
Sara Raasch
#49. This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
Joseph Campbell
#51. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
Walter Keane
#52. In some ways, it's easier to be around you and the other angels than it is to be around my own parents and my own best friend."
Daniel thought for a moment. "I don't want that for you. It shouldn't have to be like that. All I ever wanted was to love you."
"Me too. That's all I want.
Lauren Kate
#53. I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.
Nayvadius Cash
#54. All I ever wanted to be was a Ninja ... Tong from Kickboxer, Sagat from Street Fighter.
Pat Barry
#55. Credibility is to be good. You must be good. That's all I ever wanted - to be good at what I did.
Cher
#57. Baby you're my everything, you're all I ever wanted, we can do it real big, bigger than you've ever done it.
Drake
#58. All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills
Edie Falco
#59. You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband."
"That was because of Merripen," Win admitted. "He was all I ever wanted.
Lisa Kleypas
#60. I remember how amazing it felt to be loved by him and how he was all I ever wanted.
Siobhan Davis
#61. I don't mean to be such a burden," I whispered. All I ever wanted to do was protect you.
"It's not a burden if people are willing to carry it," she pointed out.
Alexandra Bracken
#62. I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.
Polly Bergen
#63. All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.
Robert E.Lee
#64. You chose me because I am of use. But I chose you because I wanted you. All I ever wanted was for you to love me in return. He
Amy Harmon
#65. I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#66. I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
#67. I'm used to being a supporting player in the background. All I ever wanted, at the very most, was to have a small part in something where people were like, 'Oh, right, that one guy, whoever he is, was pretty good in that.' That's all I ever really strived for or expected.
Robin Lord Taylor
#69. I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.
Alexandra Daddario
#70. Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.
Smoky Joe Wood
#71. ...that's all I ever wanted back, to have a home, a family. All I wanted was clarity in my life. Something that made sense, something that I could hold onto, someone I could love without a doubt and be my home. Alex, you're my clarity. You. Are. My. Home.
M. Clarke
#72. All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
Dave Eggers
#73. To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.
Bruce Springsteen
#74. I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn't tell anyone because I knew it wasn't normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.
Sharon E. Rainey
#75. All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
Norman Wisdom
#76. I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.
Thomas Bernhard
#77. All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
Jamie Oliver
#78. All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.
Stevie Wonder
#80. All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.
Peter Shaffer
#81. All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.
Max Weinberg
#82. All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.
Joe Piscopo
#83. But if he does pick you . . . that'll be good. You deserve to be happy." That was it. I slapped him. "You idiot!" I whisper-yelled at him. "I hate him! I loved you! I wanted you; all I ever wanted was you!
Kiera Cass
#84. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgement, and its cold, resentful eyes. I saw it all around me.
Tahereh Mafi
#85. All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar
Maximilian Timm
#88. All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.
Cheryl Cole
#89. All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.
Mr. T
#90. What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?
Heidi C.
Rhonda Byrne
#91. It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
Harmony Korine
#92. You can imagine anything you want in the dark. You can imagine your father loves you, you can imagine your mother is not disappointed, you can imagine that you are...significant. That you mean somethin' to someone. That's all I ever wanted, Fielding. To matter. That is all I've ever wanted.
Tiffany McDaniel
#93. All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.
Chely Wright
#94. From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.
Steven Van Zandt
#97. It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson
#98. All I ever wanted, all I ever dreamed of,
Everything I hoped, and all the things I prayed for
Couldn't hold a candle to what I've been given,
I've been given what I need.
Michael McLean
#99. Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
Lou Holtz
#100. I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This - this - this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.
Beth Revis
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