Jenna Ushkowitz Quotes

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.

I didn't start auditioning until my 10th birthday when I auditioned for 'Matilda' The Musical in London! It was actually the first time I realized that it was a career I could pursue.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

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

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.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I sing; I started my career at 9 years old in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

I've taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid - and when I saw her do that, I was so obsessed. Those were like my first words; I was singing along to the songs. From that point on, I did theater, and then I got into acting in film and television.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.