Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

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.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.