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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
PARKER POSEY Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well,...
RENE RUSSO I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake a...
JIMMY FALLON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food an...
ANITA BAKER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C...
PRINCE ROYCE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I was watching TV one day, and I'm like, 'How did those people get on TV? I'm gonna try ...
BENJAMIN STOCKHAM In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an ab...
JANET JACKSON Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
EILEEN MYLES I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birt...
YIGAL AZROUEL TV is the best. I wish that's how life was.
ELIZA COUPE I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
ASHLEY TISDALE Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger ...
BLAKE ANDERSON I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I...
STELLA YOUNG As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals wer...
RYAN REYNOLDS I started with me as Awkwafina reciting 'Othello' monologues, and I'd send those to my f...
AWKWAFINA It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday!
“Happy birthday!” I yelled. “...
RICK RIORDAN About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN Brandon is a comedian. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on TV someday.
JOHN GORDON I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?...
DANE COOK I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou...
KIMBERLEY NIXON I liked watching myself on TV. My first job was hosting the 'Roommate Game'.
DAVE ANNABLE When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&...
GLORIA STUART I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used s...
DEMETRI MARTIN The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my ...
TAMMY BLANCHARD I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quit...
KATHERINE JENKINS I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The...
JOHN SWEENEY My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of...
GRANT GUSTIN I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my fam...
MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. ...
CATHY GUISEWITE I wish you many congratulations on your birthday.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pre...
SABRINA CARPENTER I just want to take this opportunity to wish a Happy Birthday to all of you out there celebrating yo...
WILLARD SCOTT My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called...
EDWARD ZWICK Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!
BENEDICT WONG I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't...
ALAN KING My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.'...
SARAH KOENIG I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and 'Lucas' came on. I w...
WINONA RYDER I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished some...
NADIA COMANECI I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b...
CHARLIE TROTTER Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge....
TOM SMOTHERS I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck...
M. WARD 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I p...
JEREMIH Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon liv...
ALFONSO CUARON I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the rig...
ZEDD It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for orig...
JONI MITCHELL It was about 25 years ago that he came to see me play in a bar and had the audacity to say 'I'm gonn...
JON BON JOVI I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the da...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't thin...
CHANG-RAE LEE On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is,...
AKSHAY KUMAR My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis ...
SUZI QUATRO Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with th...
ERICA JONG Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Being in the infantry is hard on family life. I want to get married someday and I want to be around ...
MATTHEW ZEDWICK I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
ADAM DRIVER New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
CHARLES LAMB The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard because I kept looking at my daddy...
LESLIE JONES I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square ...
MARILYN MONROE I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her...
CHELSEA CLINTON I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry ...
SID GILLMAN I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and ...
KERRY STOKES My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
VICTOR CRUZ It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been ...
PILOU ASBAEK I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to b...
TAYLOR HICKS My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ...
R. L. STINE My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework ev...
SIMON HELBERG I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I lear...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because ...
ROB LOWE My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every ...
LUKE BRYAN I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
OZZY OSBOURNE When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents...
DAVID HENRIE I would be sitting in my flat watching TV, and 'Doctor Who' would be on with my flatmate the...
MATT SMITH There's a lot of goals I've set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I'm always setting...
A.J. STYLES My birthday wish: I hope that Filipinos will have a prosperous, peaceful life.
JOEL VIRADOR I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, ...
WALTER CRONKITE I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, i...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would ac...
BAT FOR LASHES When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rum...
AIDAN GILLEN My favourite TV show is 'Pretty Little Liars,' and I actually made a guest appearance on it....
MADDIE ZIEGLER I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.
CHINO MORENO Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ...
ZACH BRAFF I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their...
GIULIANA RANCIC I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what...
TROIAN BELLISARIO I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen...
ZOSIA MAMET They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I...
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