Erich Bergen Quotes

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.

'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'

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 grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage.

When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.

I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.