#want

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#children #i #i can #life #live

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#circus #clown #entertain #entertain people #i

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#designer #everything #fashion #fashion designer #i

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#call #colorado #could #david #david lynch

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. ↗

— Spike Lee

#i #i love #love #motivation #story

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too. ↗

— Spike Lee

#get #i #lot #money #nice

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic. ↗

— Spike Lee

#get #i #i can #interests #like

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #country #history #honest #i

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#actress #asked #course #early #everyone