Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.
As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.
I deserve a mom.
I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."
I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.
From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
I've always wanted a straight-up cooking show since I was a child.
As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.
When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
I wanted to fly when I was little.
When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'
I wanted to be a witch so badly when I was younger.
I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
I used to see Triumph TR7s and E-Type Jags, and I used to think, 'One day, I'm gonna have one of those.' I remember seeing an E-Type and walking round it 40 or 50 times.
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.
