Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

My grandma did opera singing for the better part of her life; she used to sing all over the place. My grandpa was a sax player, and he used to travel all over the place, too.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I think it's quite tricky for actors to release albums. It's difficult, because I'm an actor, you know, I'm not a musician. I love singing, but I don't have a big repertoire of songs that I've written; I mean, I've got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don't want to do it just for the sake of it.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

My parents are both into music. My mom sings and my dad plays piano, so there was always music everywhere. I was singing at a very young age, but I actually got my buzz through rapping.

I've been wanting to do music since I was 14, but like I've really always enjoyed giving speeches and I enjoy talking to people, so I was like, maybe I can be a newscaster.

Even before Pentatonix, I always thought that I would be out here in New York doing Broadway and doing musical theater. That was what gave me the passion for music in the first place, so it's been really, really, cool.

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.

Music is something that I've been passionate about. I play the piano and sing, but I always knew that it was never going to be my bread and butter. I was very interested in acting.

The reason I loved doing films like 'Rogue One,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Lion' was that there was enough breadth and difference in those projects to properly represent my interests.

I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I went to church, and I feel like I got my prayer answered.