Maury Yeston Quotes

Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

I always wanted to go to a drama school.

Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it's probably because I had bought it to learn the music so I could go and audition.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

I'm a performer.

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

I was a drama major through college.

I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

I want to do theatre and I want to do period drama.

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

I would like to do some musicals.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

'The Taming Of The Shrew' is probably the first time I've worked in this country for about ten years, apart from theatre, and it's not for want of trying. It was so fantastic to work in London - it felt really glamorous.