Top 100 I've Always Wanted To Quotes
#1. I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.
Rick Yancey
#2. Weird?"
"Yeah, weird. But in a good way."
"Good," I said, "I've always wanted to be weird in a good way.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#3. I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.
Margaret Cho
#4. A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
Richard Russo
#5. I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
Lucian Freud
#6. I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.
Mark Wahlberg
#7. I've always wanted to have kids of my own, it's just tough finding a woman I wouldn't be wasting my DNA on.
Zach Braff
#8. I love television, I've always wanted to be on television.
Judy Greer
#9. Hal: " ... Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.
John Flanagan
#10. I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.
Jenny Slate
#11. I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
Wes Borland
#12. I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E.L. James
#13. Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.
Sufjan Stevens
#14. I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
Hannah Gadsby
#15. I've always wanted to be involved in an exorcism movie. But I thought, "How do you make something scarier than The Exorcist?" The answer is you don't. But that doesn't mean you can't make something that is original and interesting.
Eli Roth
#16. To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
Robert Harris
#17. Well I've always wanted to sing at something called The Houston Rodeo in my hometown, so hopefully I'll get to do that one day.
Danielle Bradbery
#18. I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.
Emily Rose
#19. I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.
Alanna Ubach
#20. I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.
Robert Kiyosaki
#21. I know, " she said, flatly. "Antimei warned me that you would 'transform' me. I was hoping it would be into a frog, or a racquiel, or perhaps a bear -- I've always wanted to be a bear! Not a 'proper young lady'!" she said, bitterly.
Terry Mancour
#22. I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
Clemence Poesy
#23. I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
Bryan Adams
#24. I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller.
Nicholas Haslam
#25. I've had purpose because I've always wanted to be successful, but having my son is the cherry on top. He makes me go harder in achieving all that I've dreamed of.
Ciara
#26. Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.
Chuck Klosterman
#27. I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.
Robert Plant
#28. I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.
Roz Chast
#29. I've always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that's never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I've been able to offer the horse a better human being, as time has gone on.
Buck Brannaman
#30. I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
Dakota Fanning
#31. I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
Dominic Chianese
#32. I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!
Eli Roth
#33. I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.
Mary Meeker
#34. I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.
Brandy Norwood
#36. I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Edward Furlong
#37. I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.
Klaus Von Klitzing
#38. 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.
Paulo Costanzo
#39. I've always wanted to work with Elizabeth Banks. She's so talented and funny, and she's become this force of nature - directing, producing. Being around her is kind of inspiring.
Gillian Jacobs
#41. I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.
Mimi Rogers
#42. I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.
Stephen King
#43. I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.
Paul Walker
#45. I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
Fred Rogers
#46. I've always wanted to do an adult cartoon, because I want a job where you can just drive up in your pajamas, have a cup of tea and not even get dressed, and you've gone to work for the day. What a great gig!
Rebecca Mader
#47. I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.
Sarah Mlynowski
#48. I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
Curt Schilling
#49. I split time between Nebraska and Florida. I'll come to Nebraska in the summertime and stay through Thanksgiving and then I go back to Florida because I have family in both places. One of the reasons I got the place in Nebraska is I've always wanted to live back in Nebraska.
Larry The Cable Guy
#50. My intention with The Soup was to hopefully follow in the footsteps of past hosts, like Greg Kinnear. The pedigree of that show was really good and if it could just get me into some of those audition rooms I've always wanted to get into that I could not get into, then I would be very happy.
Joel McHale
#51. The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
Charlie Rose
#52. I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
Olivia D'Abo
#53. I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
Mary Oliver
#54. I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'
Quentin Tarantino
#55. I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
Jason Marsden
#56. Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
Leslie Easterbrook
#57. Maybe I don't understand love because no one who has said they loved me has ever put me first. I've always wanted to be loved,
Joelle Charbonneau
#58. I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.
Leona Helmsley
#59. When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.
Leona Lewis
#60. People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers
#61. I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.
John Fogerty
#62. Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do ... There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.
Michael Phelps
#63. I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.
Angelina Jolie
#64. I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
Dominic West
#65. I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?
Harrison Ford
#66. I've always wanted to put a little solarium on the back of my house. You know. Glass.
Sylvia Browne
#67. The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.
Derek Jeter
#68. I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Aarti Sequeira
#69. There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car ... this is going to be unbelievable.
Guy Fieri
#70. It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have that kind of desire, I think you can achieve what you want to achieve.
Manon Rheaume
#71. 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
Natalie MacMaster
#72. I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.
Richard Donner
#73. I've always wanted to meet Robert Downey, Jr. because I think he's awesome.
Elden Henson
#74. I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.
Darius Rucker
#75. I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
David Chase
#76. Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts.
Kathy Mattea
#77. I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.
Bernard Hopkins
#78. Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Oscar Isaac
#79. I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
Jim Gaffigan
#80. I've always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that's always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There's no competition.
Nikki Cox
#81. I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#82. And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
Stanley Tucci
#83. One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.
Naturi Naughton
#85. I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly
#86. I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.
Ruth Rendell
#87. I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.
Hayden Panettiere
#88. I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
George Saunders
#89. I don't date dancers, but I've always wanted to teach guys how to dance.
Briana Evigan
#90. The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Anthony Minghella
#91. Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.'
Jimmy Fallon
#92. The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
Randeep Hooda
#93. It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
Rosamund Pike
#94. I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.
Brandy Norwood
#95. I've always wanted to believe God made me this way for a reason."
"I am the reason.
Tiffany Reisz
#96. I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.
Julianne Hough
#97. I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.
Brendon Urie
#98. I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.
Dan Harmon
#99. I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.
Kym Whitley
#100. Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.
Tom Hardy
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