Top 100 I Always Wanted To Quotes
#1. I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
Illeana Douglas
#2. This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
Hooman Majd
#3. I always wanted to be less tall. When I was at school I was the same height as all of my girlfriends and then suddenly I was turning 12 and almost overnight I got really tall.
Claudia Schiffer
#4. When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."
Gregg Sulkin
#5. I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
Samantha Isler
#6. I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
Jon Lovitz
#7. I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
Alexander McQueen
#8. I always wanted to be Olympic champion and do clean programs.
Kim Yuna
#9. I always wanted to be a musician, 100 percent, my whole life. I went to school, I did music theory, I did voice training and piano lessons, and while I was a decent musician, it didn't seem like enough for me. I felt like I wanted to make more than just music.
Adria Petty
#11. I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.
Giancarlo Esposito
#12. What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
Alan Alda
#13. When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
Patrick Dempsey
#15. I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.
Daniel Craig
#16. As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
Aaron Rodgers
#17. I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.
Ester Dean
#19. I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.
Jochen Zeitz
#20. I always wanted to do a B&E. Not bacon and eggs. Although I could always go for bacon and eggs. I'm talking about breaking in and entering.
Dane Cook
#21. It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
Tony Curtis
#22. I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.
Katharine Hepburn
#23. Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
Jennifer Hudson
#24. Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
Kevin Spacey
#25. I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.
Missi Pyle
#26. I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.
Kristoffer Rygg
#27. Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
Bjork
#28. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live
Paulo Coelho
#29. Great," Percy said. "I always wanted to be glue.
Rick Riordan
#30. The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day's work. Nothing more. Nothing less. That was hard for me to learn. I always wanted to be finished. In the concept of a day's work is rythme and pace and wholeness.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
Kangana Ranaut
#32. Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
Jonathan Coe
#33. I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
Johnny Winter
#34. I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
Patti Smith
#35. I always wanted to see why Captain America was on this team of Avengers. He's got to have a reason - he can't just be really fast and punch really hard.
Chris Evans
#36. An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
Danny Aiello
#37. Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be WWE Champion. I've been in love with sports-entertainment for my entire life, and I always wanted to do that.
David Otunga
#38. I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy
#39. Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
Mary Ellen Mark
#40. Afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
Ann Aguirre
#41. There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.
Tinashe
#42. My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten
#43. I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.
Emmitt Smith
#44. I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#45. As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
Valeria Golino
#46. I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
Carla Gugino
#47. I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.
Drake Bell
#48. I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
Naomi Watts
#49. I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
Tim Howard
#50. I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
Alan Hansen
#51. This is the band I always wanted to be in.
Phil Anselmo
#53. I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
Adam DeVine
#56. I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.
John Burnside
#57. We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.
Roy Wood
#59. I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.
Jessica Ennis
#60. I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
Nick Kroll
#61. I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Cameron Russell
#62. I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.
Donna Mills
#63. I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
Alison Elliott
#64. I always wanted to act, but never thought of it as something serious to do.
John Cullum
#65. But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
Paul Gascoigne
#66. I always wanted to sing, as a child.
Luke Evans
#67. From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer ... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.
Katherine Jenkins
#68. As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.
Marc Jacobs
#69. I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.
Michelle Ryan
#70. I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.
Jenny Slate
#71. From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.
Kendrick Lamar
#72. I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.
Kurt Cobain
#73. I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
Tom Cruise
#74. I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary school, and wanted to play drums. I started playing drums at 11, and that's where it all started.
Patty Schemel
#75. I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.
Isabella Rossellini
#76. I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.
Brenda Lee
#77. I would hope when I do blow up that I can keep that same mentality. I think I will because I'm the kinda dude that no matter how far I take something, I always wanted to be higher.
SonReal
#78. I have always had this necessity to win. When I played with my friends on the street, football or running, I always wanted to be the best,
Jorge Lorenzo
#79. I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
Nate Ruess
#80. This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.
Wilbur Smith
#82. I always wanted to be a 'Blue Peter' presenter when I grew up!
Sophie Aldred
#83. I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
Robert Caro
#84. I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
Christopher Parker
#85. I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.
Tom Hanks
#86. When I was a little boy, I always wanted to run. I loved competing with my friends.
David Rudisha
#87. I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.
Heather Graham
#88. On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.
Corey Feldman
#90. Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.
Mark Gatiss
#92. My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
Jill Lepore
#93. I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.
Anupam Kher
#94. I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.
Lauren Bacall
#95. I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
Jude Law
#96. When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
Christina Ricci
#97. I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.
Anthony Mackie
#98. I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.
Quentin Tarantino
#99. I always wanted to play a mental patient. I was fascinated with playing crazy people in college, and I don't know if I ever quite perfected it.
Alison Brie
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