“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.” IfsWantYearsSaidStoriesAgeRememberMotherSimpleRoomsFrontsTvsMomConversationMy MomWatching Tv Author:Derek Luke
“TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.” LongHomeDreamSchoolFallWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionTvsMomMy MomRanGradesHomework Author:Melissa Rauch
“I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.” LittlesWantedActorsTvsMomMy Mom Author:Jodi Sweetin
“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.” HomeSchoolTurnsRolesGrowing UpGrowingTvsGrewMomGrew UpModelsMalesRole ModelsAdoptedTurn-onSingle MomMale Role Models Author:Bailey Chase
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.” WorldFeelingsJobsTvsMomLikesSecureSteady Author:Ming-Na Wen
“So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV” LongWaitingTvsMomActivismBombsShelter Author:Tom Lehrer
“I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.” ThinkingInspirationActionFilmActorsGrowing UpGrowingTvsMomHorrorMy MomHorror FilmAction Films Author:Rick Gonzalez
“My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.” StoriesWatchesTvsMomDadMy FamilyTablesMy DadMy MomItalian Author:Meg Cabot
“I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.” Growing UpTeacherGrowingTvsMomSittingBallsMy MomBackgroundsAfternoonGymnasticsBackyardsWatching Tv Author:Gal Gadot
“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.” PlayEasyStuffParentTeacherTvsGrewMomDadLessonsGrew UpTrainingEnglandMusicalMy MomPopsPianoThemeMotivatedPortionsSaxophonePiano LessonThematicHeydayPiano Teachers Author:Gerard Cox
“You already past 21 and you still talking about "I'ma be a rapper." You ain't did one show, niggas ain't seen you on TV. So Kendrick kind of went through the same thing I went through. He just had his mom's house to go to.” KindStillsShowsPastHouseTalkingTvsMomRapper Author:Schoolboy Q
“You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk R-rated. I mean I've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. When a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on TV. Unless it's cable.” PeopleIfsWayWantYearsMeanGirlThreeHouseTalkingBoysTvsMomDadNormalDaughterIntelligentMadStormCablesNot Talking Author:Bob Saget
“I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live - the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom.” KnowsShowsRolesTvsMomTv ShowsOne Life To Live Author:Patricia Mauceri
“Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.” KnowsYearsRealShowsFatherMemoriesShareChildhoodSonTvsGrewMomMajorsGrew UpReal LifeBunchConfusedVisibleEpisodesFifteenTv ShowsMistressBudKittenFifteen YearsRosyBradyFifteen Years OldDruggiesBrady BunchFavorite Tv ShowsFather Knows Best Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."” IfsTryingWellsTvsMomOkayTheaterMy MomIf I Could Author:Liana Liberato
“Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.” PeopleKnowsMeanBeautifulPerfectAcceptingSpecialLove YouTvsMomUniqueLikesImperfectionLove YourselfYour MomNobody's Perfect Author:Keke Palmer
“My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!” ThinkingMenI CanKidsWantedUsedHouseLeftBlackWhiteRoomsMorningFiveFourTvsMomDadMarriedThirdsMy DadBoxesDivorceAssGradesBreakfastBlack And WhiteCaptainsSurvivedFurnitureDivorcedCouchesLiving RoomRubberCrunchThird GradeSleepovers Author:Christopher Titus
“I'm most proud of our son, having suffered several miscarriages before having him. As for the next mountain, it takes so much to maintain what's already going on that I don't have time to think about it. But I want some more seasons of the TV show, I'd like to write another book, and eventually, I'd like to retire and take vacations with my husband like my mom and dad do.” ThinkingWantWritingBookShowsNextSonTvsMomProudDadHusbandMountainSeasonsMy MomMy HusbandRetiringVacationTv ShowsTime To ThinkMom And DadMiscarriage Author:Wendy Williams
“I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'” KnowsSaidRememberNightWatchesWeekTvsMomTreatsMy MomSaturdaySaturday NightSaturday Night Live Author:Rashida Jones
“After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.” ThinkingMadeTwoShowsWantedMovingHouseFeltTalkingStyleCollegeTvsMomLoversShotsSeasonsPaidLifetimeMade ItPilotsMoving OutTalking Heads Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.” IfsWorldWayWantSaidSchoolFilmActorsActingCareersTvsMomDirectGratefulMy MomFilm SchoolBest Film Author:Jay Baruchel
“We need to show how we really are and how we really are is that I'm the Dad, that's the Mom, these are the kids. This is how you respect us. It's "Yes Sir", "No Sir", "Yes Mam" and "No Mam". We don't see a lot of that on TV, so I just want to give an example and show examples on how a family should be versus how families are portrayed on TV.” WantNeedsGivingShouldShowsKidsExampleTvsMomDadVersus Author:Ginuwine
“TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.” KnowsFeelsFirstsWantedMotherFatherTvsMomMessagesSitcomBeing A MomEnchanted Author:Roseanne Barr
“It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.” KnowsLongSometimesKidsHateHoursPayFrontsTvsMomEasierQuietBillsParksLong AgoLaundryPeace And QuietWorking Mom Author:Michelle Obama
“One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.” IfsHandsTvsWallMomWindowMy MomWarmOne TimeCords Author:Akiva Schaffer
“What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.” MeanDoeHomeSchoolTvsMomBedSickMy MomSoupShieldsPillowMean GirlsWatching Tv Author:Brooke Shields