I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
Natalie Wood

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
Barry White

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
Sebastian Bach

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Jim Harrison

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
Jo Brand

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.
Francis Ford Coppola

I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
Francis Ford Coppola

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
Bruce Springsteen

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
Alec Baldwin

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.
Sandra Bullock

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas Sparks

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ray Charles

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu