Ella Purnell Quotes

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Julliard, and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.

I was born to be on the stage.

Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

I fell in love with acting while I was a student at UCLA.

I am very keen to take on a 'West End' show soon, as I haven't done much theatre, and that would be amazing. It is quite liberating to be on stage night after night.