Dick Van Dyke Quotes

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

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

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 should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

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

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

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've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

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.

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

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

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

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

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

I would like to play Broadway!

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.