"I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous."
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"He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all."
"I always wanted to be a psychiatrist."
"It would not be better if men got what they wanted."
"I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic."
"Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted."
"We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?"
"I always wanted to be an actor."
"I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly."
"I always wanted to be wealthy. I did."
"Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies."
"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."
"I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals."
"When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act."
"I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out."
"I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?""
"This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me. Not sex. But me."
"I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted."
"I wanted so terribly to be good to him."
"I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked."