Performance Experience Quotes

At the time the quickest way to establish yourself as an American was to throw a little bit of tap into your dance - even when it wasn't called for. But what also helped me was the fact that I was dancing in roles that I had played.

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

We've had the good fortune of performing to live music a few times in our career and it always creates a different dynamic.

I think my dream would have been to be a solo artist. But it didn't work out like that, and I also love to sing lots of musical stuff; I was really good at that, I've got a big voice. I dropped into musical theater and really enjoyed it and I sang for about nine years of my career.

Getting to do shows with Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, and Sam Hunt is just awesome. It's so inspiring because I grew up such fans of Lady A and Keith, and to be able to sing my songs on the same stage as them and then stand side stage and watch them is just a really special thing.

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

I worked at Dollywood when I was a kid. Then I worked at Opryland. I worked at a variety of theater things in Atlanta. I was also in a choir for two years where we did 'Annie' and 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.'

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I used to sing at mata ki chowkis and other religious events, and people loved me.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I've lost a few notes on the top. But I've gained a little insight about what makes people comfortable when they're listening or watching a performance of mine. It usually has to do with singing something that isn't vocally too strenuous.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

I was a 2-year-old baby on something, but it's not like I had lines. But I actually had my first lines when I was 4. And then I finished school, and I went to USC for their BFA program in acting.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I've done a lot of ensemble work, and I like that.

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

I come up from a music background.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.