Wanted Quotes - Page 34

• Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

  Wil Wheaton

  Differences, Parent, Littles

  "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.

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• I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

  Jason Patric

  Needs, Good Enough, Ifs

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• I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

  Chadwick Boseman

  People, Giving, Waiting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Football, Art, Mad

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2018

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• I got in touch with my agent and told him I wanted to start going out on things again.

  Tina Yothers

  Going Out, Agents

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• Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.

  Marlee Matlin

  Tunes, Body, Way

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• I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.

  David Oyelowo

  Nice, Opportunity, Order

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• I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Song, Men, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Baby, Crazy, Reading

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• I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

  David Alan Grier

  Jobs, Acting, Wonder

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

  David Alan Grier

  Dad, Hero, Kids

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• I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

  Ashley Jensen

  Bars, Littles, Lauren

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• I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Hero, Kids, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Native American, Hair, Black

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

  Don Henley

  Player, Stuff, Busier

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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• They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Attitude, Mistake

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• My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, what am I selling now? You're selling a good time.

  Morris Lapidus

  People, Design, Firsts

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• Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

  Christopher Durang

  College, Obsession, Film

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• I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Poetry, Awkward

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.112, Emblem Editions

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• Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

  Chuck Close

  Change, Moving, Polaroids

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• One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Journey, Doctors, Holocaust

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• Yes, the Commission wants to increase its powers, Yes, it is a non-elected body and I do not want the Commission to increase its powers at the expense of the House, so of course we differ. The President of the Commission, Mr Delors, said at a press conference the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the Community. He wanted the Commission to be the Executive and he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate. No! No! No!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, House, Community

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Eyebrows, Numbers

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