Top 100 Never Wanted Quotes
#1. I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
Jane Goodall
#3. You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris ...
Fetty Wap
#4. My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
Shaun White
#5. I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
Olga Korbut
#6. I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
G-Eazy
#7. I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
Roger Daltrey
#8. I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
Richard Avedon
#9. It's one thing to want someone, to desire to be with them, but it's an entirely different thing to actually need them. I never wanted to need anyone ever again.
D.T. Dyllin
#10. I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
Irv Kupcinet
#11. I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
Sonia Sotomayor
#12. I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.
Emraan Hashmi
#13. I have never wanted to punch a highway in the face as badly as I do right now.
Seanan McGuire
#14. He kept his promises. He never wanted to abandon anyone the way he'd been abandoned and lied to.
Rick Riordan
#15. I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
Rachel Ward
#16. I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
Mamie Van Doren
#17. I've never done this with a woman like you before. Never wanted to. I only know ... I don't want it to end.
Sabrina Jeffries
#18. I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.
Jane Clayson
#19. I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.
Mick Jagger
#20. She never wanted an extravagant life-- only one filled with simple joys like children, family, friendship, good books, funny jokes, and a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
S.A. Huchton
#21. So I fight for a Father who I never loved, against a brother that I did. I defend an empire that never wanted me against an army that would have taken me in a heartbeat.
Chris Wraight
#22. I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.
Novak Djokovic
#23. I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
Manolo Blahnik
#24. Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy's life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
Angelina Jolie
#25. It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
James Baldwin
#26. fame gives you everything you never wanted.
Ava Gardner
#27. I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Tom Baker
#28. I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
Gore Vidal
#29. I was lost in her and it felt so goddamn wonderful, I never wanted to be found again. Lost for forever in this moment with her. I could die a happy death right now and I would definitely be smiling.
Raine Miller
#30. My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.
Tiger Woods
#31. I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business ... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.
Anne Robinson
#32. Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.
Angelina Jolie
#33. I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.
Lauren Conrad
#34. It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
David Cassidy
#36. But I never cheated on your mom. Never wanted to. You need a man who feels the same way, and don't stop until you find him.
Joanna Wylde
#37. I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.
Martin Compston
#38. I've never wanted more, until I met you. - Christian Grey, Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
#39. I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.
Marc Singer
#40. I want things to get out of hand.
I'm scared to death of everything that's happening.
And I've never wanted it more.
Karina Halle
#41. I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
Ellie Goulding
#42. I really wanted to lose myself. People my entire life have told me I am too much in control, but that has never been the case. I have never truly been in control, have never wanted control.
Jeff VanderMeer
#43. I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I'm a bit dark.
Yohji Yamamoto
#44. I am sorry about being so ... amorous with you. I never wanted to hurt you. I simply ... wanted you.
S.C. Stephens
#45. I was shy, withdrawn, and read obsessionally. But I never wanted to be anyone else other than me.
Anais Nin
#46. I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
Kevin Kline
#47. I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.
Eve Plumb
#48. I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
Hugh Jackman
#49. I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.
Tracey Ullman
#50. I didn't want to be different.
I wanted to be able to laugh
But I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.
I don't want to be part of history, I just want to be loved ... and to love.
Frank Herbert
#51. Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life ... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me ... I want to share.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#52. I had never wanted someone like him, physically. But nor had I ever known someone like him, soulfully.
Vee Hoffman
#53. I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.
Jonathan Evison
#54. I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
Mark Teixeira
#55. I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
Kurt Cobain
#57. I'd never wanted to be with a woman rather than be a priest, I'd wanted to be with Poppy rather than be a priest. I didn't want the freedom to fuck, I wanted the freedom to fuck her. I didn't want a family, I wanted a family with her.
Anonymous
#58. If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.
Char Sharp
#59. Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it's too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.
William Gaddis
#60. Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. He could probably even guess what Harry would say next in that calm, amused voice of his that seemed to mimic every adult you never wanted to meet.
Patrick Ness
#62. I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong ...
Georges Braque
#64. I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.
Esteban Cortazar
#65. He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.
George R R Martin
#66. I never wanted anyone to have this much power over my emotions again. It was safer to keep to myself, to keep things on the surface. Things ended better that way.
Kasie West
#67. I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.
Joss Whedon
#68. I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.
Eliza Dushku
#70. I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
James Broughton
#71. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)
James Patterson
#72. I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.
Robert Sean Leonard
#73. Courtney's emotions had always been controlled and steady, logical and levelheaded. But around Brett, it was like she was on a high-speed roller coaster with steep drops and corkscrew turns, and she never wanted to get off.
Michelle Madow
#74. So many times of needing to be close to her, talk to her, see her smile at me, and now I had her in my arms, I never wanted to let her go.
Penelope Douglas
#75. I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
Ben Stein
#76. I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.
Lauren DeStefano
#77. I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.
Jessica Verdi
#78. I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.
Lisa Kleypas
#79. I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.
Chris Noth
#80. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
Judith Jamison
#81. Even if I was planning on giving the business, I never wanted to look like I was in "the business".
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#82. There weren't enough words in that moment to express the depth of our affection and our longing for each other. I never wanted this moment to end. Levi.
J.J. McAvoy
#83. I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
Ann-Margret
#84. I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.
Caitlyn Jenner
#85. Nini was looking at her face, so pure, so innocent, and so angelic. He was wondering about the man that she thought he was. He wanted so much to be that man. He felt like he never wanted to leave her dream.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#86. I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy.
Joshua Morrow
#87. I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.
Eric Thomas
#88. She named me Daisy St. Patience and never wanted to know what name I walked in the door with.
Chuck Palahniuk
#89. He'd never wanted to know, which is also a sort of knowing.
Charles Lambert
#90. He held me as if I were his most prized possession and I could feel every beat of his heart against me, as we embraced, lovingly. I felt safer and more loved than I had ever thought I could feel, and I never wanted it to end.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#92. I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.
Dax Shepard
#93. I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.
Bitsie Tulloch
#94. And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
Phil Collins
#95. I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.
Martin Freeman
#96. My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.
Taylor Swift
#97. The way I work with my people is totally different. I never wanted to compare myself, in a healthy way to Jillian [Michaels] because she did what she did, and I respect that. Now I want to do what I do.
Jessie Pavelka
#98. I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
Miep Gies
#99. But that was the hypocrisy of adulthood: You never wanted the children you cared about to do things you'd done when you were heedless of the fragility of life.
Lisa Unger
#100. It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.
Luis Suarez
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