Lauren Worsham Quotes

After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

I did do a local musical, 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar.' I played the young Sweet Georgia Brown. I was 13 years old. After that, I just decided that I had to pick one thing, acting or singing, and concentrate on that.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I thought I was going to be a theater actor. I moved to New York after college and did some plays and worked a lot. Once the realities of living as a theatrical actor hit me, I realized I wanted to start making a little bit of money and not have to bartend and work in theater.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs.

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.