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I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion, celebrity, actors, contentment

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about opinion, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about age, time

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about time, country, work

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, chance

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so other people would be also free.

Quote by Rosa Parks about recollection, people

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

Quote by Dolly Parton about woman, day, fire, fire brigade

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.

Quote by Andy Partridge about brain, moon, wife, being, world

Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

Quote by Carly Patterson about happiness

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about film

That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point.

Quote by Simon Pegg about moment

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about opinion, old, destruction

I've always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

Quote by James Cash Penney about customers, stores, commerce, haven, rightness, contentment

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Quote by Piper Perabo about opinion, contentment

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about...

Quote by Shimon Peres about love, charm, criticism, wife, thinking, time

On the other hand, they wanted to tax the windfalls or profits of the stock exchange. This time, I took the position of the rightists against it.

Quote by Shimon Peres about time

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents, I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Quote by Shimon Peres about judgment, parents, word, thinking, nothing, man

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

Quote by Harrison Ford about work, age, olderness, man

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Quote by Laurie Lee about poetry