Donald Sinden Quotes

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.

I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.

When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

I sort of fell into acting.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

I had no intention of being an actor.

My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.

Bollywood was never on my to-do list. It just happened.