#wanted

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#any #black #box #brown #career

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.' ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#always #approve #become #did #father

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. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#again #bad #barking #captain #did

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact. ↗

— Sean Parker

#earn #freedom #i #impact #making

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! ↗

— Sean Patrick Thomas

#art #back #barber #because #being

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance. ↗

— Paul Parker

#control #development #feel #gear #i

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#celebrity #daily #daily life #famous #hard

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free. ↗

— Sean Parker

#end #free #gotten #guess #i

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. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#because #chance #disappointed #exploits #fighter

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#bahamas #casinos #fleming #full #hate