Sara Paxton Quotes

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

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

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

In the past, I've done some covering. My first show in New York, I covered three guys in 'Jersey Boys.' I think it was always something that was helpful for keeping my head on straight.

Broadway really inspired me to want to act.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

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.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

I don't care much about acting.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

I was a Chicago theater actress until my early 30s, so I got to do a lot of meaty stuff in theater.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.