In this post, you will find great Wanting Quotes from famous people, such as Charlie Puth, Idris Elba, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, R. Kelly, Dule Hill. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
There’s a time and place for everything. You’re younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
I don’t know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder… I think it’s just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.
A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church – like the corporation – to be successful.
Once I accepted music was my path, I rebelled by wanting to do it my own way. I also didn’t think it was respectful to my father‘s career and creativity to assume that I could jump on the back of all he had worked his entire life for.
As we become more codependent with technology, it’s not necessarily based on our desire for the technology but our desire for interconnectivity and wanting to stay connected, which is a natural human instinct. The technology itself is kind of emotionally manipulative.
We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.
Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected… that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be an astronaut or a pop star.
When you’re really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere and realize that they don’t look like you, or they don’t speak like you, you start wanting to change who you are. That’s something that I did when I was a young kid.
I think the biggest part of being on a sound system is wanting to always be the best.
There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
Adolescents show off. That’s another way of wanting to connect with people. It’s not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you’re looking for affirmation, encouragement.
I don’t appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there’s a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.
Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.
I don’t maybe follow the normal star profile, and it’s not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.
As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we’ll keep making them.
Once I grew from 6’1′ to about 6’6′, by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that’s when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
And I didn’t grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal – to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn’t have the novels, maybe I’d be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I’ve been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.
I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.
I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they’re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don’t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I’m investing enough into it.
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
I was thinking about how we’re so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.
You’re not free in life until you’re free of wanting other people’s approval.
For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn’t happened since ‘Full House.’ I feel like I came through for them.
I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.
From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs‘ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema – or I needed to make something more disruptive – so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It’s one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
I don’t mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I’m not wanting for appreciation.
I can’t ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.
I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey’s dog Moyo.
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.
Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the ‘X Factor‘ variety. I didn’t feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter.
I’ve been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It’s the one thing from America I really miss.
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
I’m finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto – What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? – and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially.
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I’m not claiming I’m a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.
You don’t come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.
For years, I’ve been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.
Basically, I learned to read by reading ‘Peanuts,’ just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it’s a fairly common story.
Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.
Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
We’re always wanting to get better. I’m very much a perfectionist.
I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.
I don’t even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They’re about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn’t ordinarily meet.
We’re living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you’re mentally stimulated, you’re challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.
I like people wanting to know about me.
I’m always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.
Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.
The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of ‘living well’ instead of wanting to ‘live better’ by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
The first time I heard ‘Crazy Train,’ I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
I think it’s good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it’s good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die – if you are found wanting over a period of time, you’ve either got to change what you’re doing or find something else to do.
You have to know your identity. It’s the biggest thing in wanting to pursue creative dreams.
It’s become another dimension to who I am. I don’t think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I’m at a different place in my life.
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We’re all dying to win an Oscar.
It’s flattering if people think I’m attractive. If it helps, great, but it’s not going to get in the way of me wanting to win. That’s what I’m all about.
I just be wanting my fans to like, feel like I’m bringing them something nobody bringing them.
I’ve always liked stories. I’m always reading, ever since I was a kid. I’ve always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
The part you don’t expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it’s hard and gruelling – the travelling, the meet-and-greets – it was too crazy.
I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
I love acting because you don’t have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that’s what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It’s incredibly rewarding.
I always thrive on wanting to play against the best.
I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America.
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and increase the size of the state.
When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it’s really been all about wanting to make saving the world cool.
I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!
Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London‘s leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National’s role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.
I make no apology for wanting to make a profit – the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.
Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I’d grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren’t rooting for me, they aren’t out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
I just don’t understand the Big 12 not wanting to own Houston, Texas, which is soon to be the third-largest populous in the United States. To me, it’s a no-brainer. I’m just kind of disappointed and shocked it’s not an automatic.
For me, acting is like a holiday. When you’re directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It’s exciting but exhausting, especially when you’re like me: always wanting to break the rules.
I’ve been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people’s desires.
Trees face many difficulties, what with deforestation and pollution, but that didn’t stop me from wanting to be one – to just stop feeling and live.
Leave them wanting more and you know they’ll call you back.
Without individuals feeling safe and having an environment of safety, they then have reluctance of taking part in the city of being active. They wind up wanting to leave the city. That’s more detrimental.
I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it.
I have been wanting to do beauty for years and to pair with an international beauty company. It will solidify the image of Jason Wu as a world. All my shows have a distinctive hair and makeup look. It feels so natural for me; the woman who wears my clothes would have my makeup as part of her beauty regime.
A good part of the work is just reading a manuscript and coming to the office. I can’t imagine wanting to even read an article about book publishing.
You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can’t let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.
More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
I didn’t think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.
I think most producers and MCs are constantly in this competition, but it’s usually with yourself. It’s usually wanting to be innovative: wanting to catch yourself when you’re doing the same thing or throwing out the same art you’ve already done.
I get kids from all different cultures and nationalities coming up to me now, all wanting to be F1 drivers. They feel the sport is open to everyone.
My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that’s the reason they go off the deep end.
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, ‘I did not choose acting; acting chose me.’ I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.
As a little girl, I remember always wanting my grandmother to make blackberry cobbler for me. I’m obsessed with it.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that’s the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don’t always get.
I’ve gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don’t have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.
Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it’s so incredibly exciting that I can’t imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don’t have enough time in the day to design them all.
The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don’t differentiate between snaps and chats. It’s just someone wanting to talk to you.
I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
Guys come to play against Brazil and want to intimidate, putting their hands on us, talking, wanting to hit us.
I don’t believe in perfection. I don’t think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they’re immediately wanting to be a parent or not.
If you’re a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you’re looking at Family Guy, you don’t have to aim very high.
People say it’s not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.
My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.
So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light.
Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.
My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.
You can’t win with some people. If you’re not in government, you’re criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you’re criticised for wanting power. That’s the Labour party’s line of attack, and it’s a bit ridiculous.
I always call ‘Billy Elliot’ a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don’t really have is also very American in a way.
I don’t even know what made me start wanting to do music. It just… happened. Because I sat in my basement all the time, and music was my best friend, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
I constantly have little panic attacks of wanting to change something on a production level, but I let go.
I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
Something about Mariah Carey’s songs really had me wanting to sing high like her.
Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the biggest and best step that you can take. Instead of putting your ego first, you put the buyer first. And I think that that’s a really important thing just to know what the consumer is wanting to wear.
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don’t think you’re going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.
I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been approached by strangers wanting to tell me that they think I’m brave or inspirational, and this was long before my work had any kind of public profile.
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We’ve been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children’s home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.
When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.
I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn’t really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
There are Christians who think there were seven actual days, or that creation was over time. They have answers for dinosaurs and things of that nature. And I don’t claim to have any of those answers. And I understand people wanting to have discussions about it.
I’m a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn’t change things.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
I’ve definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It’s that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings.
I don’t think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me – really, anything Texas is playing – without wanting to punch me in the face. I’m as big a Longhorn fan as you’ll find.
I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It’s really funny the way that some people don’t give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.
I travel so much that when I’m not traveling, I’m just kind of curled up in a ball here, not wanting to leave or see anyone.
Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand… If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.
I’ve been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It’s the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Where every moment is about truth and I think it’s a great challenge every night. That’s what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it’s great.
Wanting attention is genderless. It’s human.
The idea of wanting to do something that’s completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.
I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn’t necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
Being able to borrow against one’s crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market.
I’ve never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn’t imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I’ve grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
I’m not a blokey bloke. I don’t take myself too seriously. But that doesn’t stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you’ve split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That’s quite difficult.
I saw ‘Billy Elliot’ again, and what I loved about it was the way it had become a social document, a reminder of what happened with the mining communities in the ’80s. And I thought, ‘Everyone keeps wanting me to make a sequel to ‘Beckham,’ but maybe a musical remake is the answer, embracing all this theatricality.’
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
If you’re going to come wanting to work really hard, you’re never going to bum me out.
My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with… namely America… Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
I started my career wanting to make a ‘James Bond‘ movie, and I couldn’t get hired! I made ‘The Bourne Identity,’ and ultimately the impact of that film was that it changed the ‘James Bond’ franchise.
I was always into music, but I wanted to do film when I was kid. I remember seeing big movies and wanting to do them. Then I was lucky enough to act in some of them, and I fell in love with it.
I don’t think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I’m certainly out there trying.
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don’t worry unduly about whether they’ll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.
There’s nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
I just always wanted to be an actor. I don’t remember ever not wanting to be an actor.
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
Don’t misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don’t think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.
I’ve just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.
I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.
I didn’t go into ‘Rabbit Hole’ wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
I’ve been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid.
Most people know me from ‘The Office,’ where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it’s surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
It was a lot easier to write songs before I had a record deal, because the record labels and the industry doesn’t mean to put pressure on you, but they do. They don’t realize that they are, but you end up having a pressure there that you feel. At times I feel myself wanting to say, ‘Just let me do what I do.’
I did musicals in high school, certainly. And then I just kept wanting to do them. I felt at home in the theater, in that way that, you know, you’re supposed to if that’s the kind of person you are.
My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the ‘big girls’ did.
I think tennis and golf have had a large boost in participation with a lot of people wanting to take up the game since the start of the pandemic.
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible – you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in ‘East-Enders’ because film wasn’t even a dream. The community were very much like, ‘How can you want to act? It’s such a low-class profession.’
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer – I just was one.
I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
I grew up wanting to be a painter and paint pictures.
Winning isn’t everything. Wanting to win is.
When I think about that first DeBarge album, I remember being so green… just pristine. Nothing mattered to me but writing songs. I remember staying locked up in a room with my piano and just singing and writing songs all day long. I remember being a perfectionist about it… wanting to change this and fix that.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That’s when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, ‘All right,’ and I just started writing. That’s when I started wanting to be a songwriter.
I didn’t set out wanting to be an actress. That’s not what I did. I didn’t go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically – honestly, I didn’t have anything else going.
There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don’t behave like one. It’s a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I’m on a declining scale of wanting things.
I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.
It’s never been seen that a street artist go as far as I’ve gone – keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what’s expected – despite wanting to get some recognition through performing – but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that’s when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don’t want to make it the focal point. You can’t keep beating that dead horse.
It’s aggravating to me when you meet people that are just… you know, there’s a difference between wanting to be an actor or a writer or something creative, and just wanting to be seen.
I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I’m not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don’t bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I’m not a book-club style reader. I’m not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I’m smart because I’m reading a certain book.
You’re torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that’s really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don’t understand the process?
If people leave the house wanting to see a comedian, they want to see someone speak out for themselves and share true stories from their life.
I didn’t set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn’t that kind of dream.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone’s only attracted to you because they’re ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.
When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they’re always wanting to participate in something, and I don’t often have that element in me.
I’m a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It’s harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It’s not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
If this phrase of the ‘balance of power‘ is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
What keeps me going or keeps me wanting to do more music is just knowing that I can provide for my family.
Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be ‘TV celebrities.’
I don’t see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn’t get it.
I think we all share a view about wanting to make sure we have a healthy river and we’re looking forward to the plan and in the lead-up to that we’ve agreed to speak again.
For women raised in the ’70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they’re associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it – but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
