“I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.” WantDoneShowsComedyTvsCoupleTv Shows Author:Sunny Mabrey
“When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.” WantCharacterTvsFemaleFemale CharactersWatching Tv Author:Gina Holden
“It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it.” WantNextStuffSportsGoalFashionTvsMeetingsSurpriseSettingSettingsAgencyEditorialsHigh FashionNew GoalSports Illustrated Author:Nina Agdal
“I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.” WantGivingKindSportsTermForeverDoorsEventsTvsTypeInvolvedInsightOlympicsGymnasticsJunkieBroadcastingGymnast Author:Jonathan Horton
“I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."” WantYearsLongSaidActorsBlackFiveSawsTelevisionTvsBabyRedDecidedDressesFive YearsButterflyFabulousGorgeousLiving OnEyelashesLike A ButterflyGorgeous Women Author:Niecy Nash
“I think what's so great about TV is I don't know if all these things were planned at first, or if they see the fans' reactions to things. They really do listen to what the fans want, and feel strongly about, and push for, so all these things are happening organically.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsFirstsFansTvsHappeningsReactions Author:Charlotte Ross
“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
“There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.” WantFeelsWritingIdeasWholeFrontsTvsChecksBullshitRemote Control Author:Lucinda Williams
“Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?” WantDoeBookLastsWeekTelevisionTvsNewsRadioCinema Author:Douglas Adams
“One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based in London. It's not quite the same as in the States where if the playwright here wants a successful TV or film career, they're whisked away by Hollywood.” IfsWantDifferentStatesFilmCareersSuccessfulTelevisionTvsHollywoodTheaterLondonPlaywrightFilm And Television Author:Colin Callender
“I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'” ThinkingWantKidsRememberGuyVoiceSeeingTvsGood TimesHaving A Good TimeWatching TvVentriloquismMel Blanc Author:Jim Cummings
“I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingHas BeensI CanShowsHateCan DoWatchesCrimeTvsRight NowMurderCompareWant Me Author:Nathan Fillion
“People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'” PeopleIfsWantAsksQualityWatchesTvsIslandsProgrammingHypocrite Author:Johnny Carson
“I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.” WorldWantTryingYearsLittlesShowsFilmBitsTvsLittle BitBoringTv ShowsVery Romantic Author:Jane Levy
“In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.” IfsThinkingWantRunningPathTvsHeroSpendingWhat IfSymbolismDeerTime To ThinkKilling Yourself Author:Eric Kripke
“Once I sold my shares and figured I wanted to get out of the magazine business it was like, "Now I can do whatever I want, anything I want in the world." And I guess I subconsciously hoped it would be something a little more adult. But I just want to do funny shorts, and TV is the ultimate endpoint for that.” WorldWantLittlesI CanWould BeWantedCan DoShareTvsAdultsUltimateMagazinesShorts Author:Gavin McInnes
“I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.” WantHomeEnjoyWatchesTvsSoloPotatoesLapCouchesUnderwearKeyboardsSoundtracks Author:Ariel Pink
“People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.” PeopleWantYearsDifferentDoneEnoughPlayCharacterShowsSeemsWantedCareersRichFiveOne ThingWeekTvsSceneExcitingEightEpisodesTv ShowsArcsAppreciative Author:Jim Piddock
“There is just this need to feed the beast of movie, or TV, or whatever it may be and you don't want to do things just because you're supposed to do them, or because they're required, or whatever it maybe.” WantNeedsMayTvsBeast Author:Bryan Burk
“If I want to do something in the TV industry, I should be allowed to explore that, but not in a way where it has to cancel out or ruin my visual art career.” IfsWayWantShouldArtCareersTvsIndustryRuinsVisualsVisual Art Author:Kalup Linzy
“My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.” WantLife IsTvsThings To DoAmbientBetter Things To Do Author:James Purefoy
“I'll never forget the moment when I saw a red light go on, on the camera, and that image translated to the monitor, and then a different light went on and the shot changed, and I went, "Wow, that's how it's done! That's how that gets to my TV! This is what I want to do with my life!" I literally had that moment of epiphany, at eight years old.” WantYearsDifferentDoneMomentsLightForgetSawsChangedTvsGoes OnShotsRedCamerasEightThat MomentNever ForgetWowEpiphanyRed Lights Author:Susanna White
“How forthright does the audience want the broadcasters to be? Because when you tell your truth, there's a lot of anger that comes out. I think it's a good question to ask TV people [executives] too. How much truth do they want to be told? How much truth does the league want told? Because the truth isn't just a positive truth. If you're going to tell the truth, you would be telling a lot of positive and some negative.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantDoeWould BeAsksAudienceTvsTruth IsNegativeLeagueTelling The TruthExecutivesBroadcastersGood Questions Author:Jeff Van Gundy
“If I only did TV show, I'd probably not be the happiest girl. I love the show, but I'm an actor and I want to work on different things. TV lasts for so much of the year that you're just aching to play a different part. And I love movies so much that I want to be a part of as many as I can.” IfsWantYearsI CanDifferentPlayShowsLastsGirlActorsTvsDifferent ThingsTv ShowsMovie Love Author:Jane Levy
“Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, "Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show, I can take it over and run it," and I was like, "Yes!" He's always been so busy that I never dared to ask that, but it just worked out, time wise, that this was the season where we could probably do it, so I jumped at it. So, even though I'm busy with other stuff, I'm excited to be writing this.” IfsWantWritingYearsHas BeensSaidI CanShowsRunningAsksStuffWiseTvsSeasonsBusyExcitedHeyTv ShowsJosh Author:John August
“The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven't been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don't have very many opportunities. There isn't much time, so you want to make sure you're going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you're going to have a good creative experience doing. You're taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful.” WantFeelsShowsAbleJobsCertainOpportunityCreativeHavensTvsProjectsWork OutMeaningfulFeel GoodVacationTv ShowsSchedulesDoing YouReally WeirdSchedulingVacation Time Author:Ty Burrell
“The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoBookDifferentSometimesCharacterStoriesUniverseLinesMaterialsTvsSeriesTreasureMediumsComicBagsComic BookTv SeriesTake Your Time Author:Glen Mazzara
“Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it's so formulaic and they're a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do. But everyone came in with their own style, and it blended together with the Helix style that was set, and at the same time, they're bringing their own ideas and their own input. It was really fun working with all of them.” WantIdeasSometimesShowsTogetherFunStyleTvsDirectorsSlaveTv ShowsInput Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“TV is the place that writers want to be. When you don't have a very strong indie market going on, talented writers want to have their voice heard, so they'll go somewhere else, and everyone goes to TV because their voices are heard.” WantStrongVoiceHeardTvsVery StrongSomewhere Else Author:Ayelet Zurer
“When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real.” WantRealActingTvsKeeping It Real Author:Ben Schwartz
“Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event.” PeopleKnowsWantShowsAsksStuffEventsTvsInvolvedComedianAsk MeHostTv ShowsGet InvolvedStand Up Comedian Author:Chelsea Handler
“To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.” PeopleWantShowsCertainTvsAmountDegreesTv ShowsFamiliarity Author:Jonathan Nolan
“Never get in to it [acting] because you want to do it for the money. Have that passion in your heart, where you would do it for free just because you absolutely love it. If you just want to do it because you want to be famous, then go do reality TV.” IfsWantHeartRealityPassionActingTvsReality Tv Author:Rockmond Dunbar
“Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.” WantDifferentShowsFilmRoomsCreativityFiveTelevisionTvsSceneEssenceSevenEightZeroTv ShowsTime And MoneyFilm And Television Author:Shailene Woodley
“There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.” WantLongDifferentReasonActorsCareersRolesDoubtTvsLong TimeSeriesScriptsFortunateReason WhyTv Series Author:Patrick Wilson
“If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.” IfsWantGivingYearsTvsSpades Author:Michael Shannon
“My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now.” WantKindShowsWifeCarBrotherTvsLike YouMy WifeMy BrotherTv ShowsTruck Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.” WantStatesUnitedUnited StatesTvsCitizenshipAllegianceOath Author:Craig Ferguson
“Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me.” WantWritingImportantLinesProduceTvs Author:Lucy Hale
“When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.” WantStoriesActingRolesTvsDependsFindingsVideo Author:Taylor Swift
“And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingYearsImportantMatterMomentsTaughtTvsLaughterYeahPhonesAdvertisingCellsNow And ThenCell PhoneHow You Feel Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Yeah, when you work with somebody that famous everybody wants to know what are they like or - but I know some of the movies that I know because they're more like NOBODY'S FOOL or like that, because I don't really watch the big R movies, I haven't really seen them so much. I loved him [Bruce Willis] from his TV show and some of the smaller movies he's done. The bigger movies I start to space out in, like, there just so, I don't really watch those kind of movies so much.” KnowsWantKindDoneShowsBigsSpaceWatchesHavensTvsFoolBiggerYeahTv Shows Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."” IfsWayWantFeelsDifferentOne ThingTvsDirectorsDirectFeatures Author:Zak Penn
“I want to always move forward with everything I am doing. So, I do the radio show, speak at universities and other social institutions all around the world, appear on TV, and continue to create music all in the hope to keep the struggle alive.” WorldWantShowsMovingSpeakSocialStruggleAliveTvsInstitutionsUniversityRadioMoving ForwardAround The WorldSocial Institutions Author:Chuck D
“And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.” WantKidsFiveTvsSmartDaughterPaintMy DaughterChipsWatching TvSmart Kid Author:Christopher Titus
“We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.” WantArtistRolesTvsMartial ArtsStereotypeTokensMartial Artist Author:Dat Phan
“Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantShouldTwoImportantLightTogetherPoliticalThreeAsksEnergyLeftNumbersOne ThingTvsImportant ThingsNeighborWant MeOrganizeGet TogetherBulbsLight BulbNumber Three Author:Bill McKibben
“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