Patricia Heaton Quotes

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.

With my family as my audience, I used to sing, dance, and reenact every scene from 'Grease,' 'Newsies' and 'Les Miserables' as many times as they would let me.

I'm obsessed with musicals.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

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

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closets for costumes and fought over parts. I'm sure I was the bossiest one.

I love working with talented young performers.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'