Performance Career Quotes

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

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 enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my niche with acting.

I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

I wanted to be an artist; it was be an artist or be an actor.

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.

I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.

I wanted to be a professional dancer my whole life.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

I was a backup dancer at one point for a group that was on RCA.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.