I hope to stay on ’Glee ’ I hope to still be a ’Housewife’ and I hope to do ’The New Normal.’ I just want to do it all! Why not? I’m only going to be young for a little while longer.

In this remark, Leakes frames her career as a deliberate act of expansion rather than a single “lane.” By listing multiple TV commitments—mainstream scripted comedy-drama, reality television, and another network sitcom—she presents ambition as additive: success means stacking opportunities, not choosing one identity. The line about being “young for a little while longer” underscores urgency and the entertainment industry’s time pressure, especially for women, where visibility and casting can be tied to age. The rhetorical “Why not?” signals a refusal of gatekeeping expectations that she should scale back or specialize, asserting agency over her public persona and workload.