Willard Scott Quotes

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

When we were first doing kids' shows with the BBC they asked us where we wanted to be in a few years' time and we said we want to be where Noel Edmonds is.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

I would love to do Broadway again.

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Being an actor has always been my dream.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.

You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.