Cuba Gooding Jr. Quotes

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

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

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

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.

One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

I was always performing as a child, and then I was determined to act and sing and dance, so I travelled for miles every day to go from home in Kent into London.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.

I think I'd really enjoy doing some more theatre, because that's where I started off.