If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.
Morgan Freeman

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
Morgan Freeman

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.
Morgan Freeman

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.
Eric Cantona

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
Orlando Bloom

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
Orlando Bloom

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Orlando Bloom

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers.
Elliott Smith

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
Elliott Smith

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.
Elliott Smith

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.
Paul Gascoigne

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
Paul Gascoigne

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Julie Christie

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.
David Beckham

But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.
Steven Tyler

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell