Top 27 Quotes About Wannabes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wannabes

#1. The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

#2. The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

#3. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

John Landis

#5. Laughter - just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

Mark Buchanan

#6. If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

Andrew Williams

#7. If by weirdo he meant that Nick didn't play grab-ass with the wannabes on the street corner, didn't yank at his crotch and call girls bitches, didn't wear oversized jerseys and pretend to be a gangsta all day, then yeah, Nick had to agree.

Brom

#8. I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

Jim Butcher

#9. Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.

Brian Wong

#10. Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Al Kooper

#11. Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

Melissa Leo

#12. With any "new" form of music, the originators are usually good bands that have good music and good ideas, like Nirvana. But then you get all the followers and wannabes, bands like Silverchair, etc ... and that really sucks.

John Gallagher Jr.

#13. School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

Eli Broad

#14. The truly wealthy don't often pursue status. They don't need to. They have already made it. The pursuit of Rolex watches and $100,000 vehicles is for wannabes like you and me. Why pursue status when you've already achieved it?

Erik Wecks

#15. Who knew what time it was when the door to my room opened and three G.I. Joe Wannabes motioned me out.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#17. I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying ... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.

David Liss

#18. Knowles had always been a pain in the ass. A wannabe who never was and never would be.

Kenneth Eade

#19. To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.

Jonah Sachs

#21. I watch way too much C-SPAN.

Michael Moore

#22. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.

Bruce Parry