Megan Hilty Quotes

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

I never wanted to be an opera singer. I wanted to be an actress, maybe a rock singer.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I used to tell my family that I was going to be a singer since I learned how to talk.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.

I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer.

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

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

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

I loved singing. But can you imagine my voice in an opera house?

I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.

In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

There was a time in my life when I'd only sing. In my initial years, I didn't ever speak on stage, forget acting. Eventually, my confidence as a performing artiste grew.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.