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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
— Michael Caine
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Yeah, but most of the time I think being an adult is not all it's cracked up to be. I've always wanted to postpone growing up for as long as possible.
— Adrianne Noel
I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers.
— Penny Reid
Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.
— Melina Marchetta
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.
— George W. Bush
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
— Dave Barry
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
— Paulo Coelho
I imagine that being wanted is the greatest feeling. A feeling that solidifies your stay in this life, justifies it.
— Tarryn Fisher
I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.
— Michel Ocelot
I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.
— Joy Bryant
Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).
— Armie Hammer
I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.
— Nolan Gerard Funk
What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
— Aubrey De Grey
I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.
— Ricky Gervais
I wanted to be a missionary and work abroad, but girls started to become a bigger part of my life around the time I lost interest in the priesthood.
— James McAvoy
I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.
— Marc-Andre Grondin
Life has a way of giving us what we need, not always what we want, but if we're smart, we'll realize that's what we wanted all along.
— Jennifer Peel
I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.
— Sofia Vergara
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
— Bobby Bowden
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
— Leslie Easterbrook
If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.
— Char Sharp
I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
— Brandy Clark
Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.
— John Oates
I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.
— Elizabeth McCracken
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.
— Hugh Jackman
I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.
— John Edwards
How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I am not allowed a say in yours?
— Jojo Moyes
That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.
— Ellen Dreyer
Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown
— Vera Wang
I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
— Christy Turlington
I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.
— Kevin Spacey
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.
— Uma Thurman
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
— Harrison Ford
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life
— Henry David Thoreau
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
— Adam Lambert
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
— John Piper
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.
— Robertson Davies
I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.
— Tim O'Reilly
I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.
— Tupac Shakur
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
— Orrin Woodward
There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.
— Victoria Principal
I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.
— Fred Korematsu
If God wanted you to live a mediocre life, He wouldn't have made you so awesome. Never apologize for being designed to succeed.
— Steve Maraboli
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
— Prince Royce
I was one of those kids who never wanted to be anything but a novelist. And I don't know a lot of people who truly live the life that they dreamed of.
— Scott Turow
How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
— M.F. Moonzajer
Apollo wanted out. Out of Aphrodite, out of this bathroom, out of this house, and out of this life.
— Marie Phillips
I wanted someone to know that before I started a life pretending to be less than everyone around me.
— Ally Condie
For so long I'd wanted my life to be nothing more than a dream. Now, with emotions and sensations flooding me, I wanted this reality.
— Gena Showalter
I wanted a normal life, but normal was as foreign to me as a super bowl ring was to Tony Romo.
— Angela McPherson
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
— Pete Wentz
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
— Naveen Jain
I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
— Roy Harper
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
— Michael Caine
It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.
— Colum McCann
Everyone wanted a life less ordinary. And only a tiny minority ever got it, and even they probably didn't appreciate it much.
— Mick Herron
When my son came into my life, my priorities changed, because I wanted to have the relationship with him, that I didn't have with my father.
— Curtis Jackson
I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.
— Gayle Forman
What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?
Heidi C. — Rhonda Byrne
Heidi C. — Rhonda Byrne