I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about because this was the new world that was emerging.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

It's funny because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end right?

I love New York. I was sad depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny have a distraction.

I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing even more than I wanted to be funny I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven and really wanting to do things so badly.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job that was the job I wanted.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else but I was funny and all that.

It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know every day I'm in a calico dress basically so it's kind of funny.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

If God wanted us to fly He would have given us tickets.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I always wanted to be somebody but now I realize I should have been more specific.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.