Andrew Rannells Quotes

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

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.

One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini 2;' I'd like to touch Meryl Streep - which would involve being with her in some exotic location. I have lots of fantastical dreams.

There are so many people who want to be the next person on 'Home and Away,' or they just want to be on the cover of a magazine, and they don't really understand the craft. They're not interested in theatre, they're not interested in the art.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I never pictured myself in California. I just thought I would be a character actress in New York on the stage. I never really had that stardom goal; I just wanted to be able to work as an actress and not as a waitress.

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

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.