Julian Ovenden Quotes

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.

Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.

My degree was in opera.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued.

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

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expressed in choirs, because you didn't have to have instruments except your voice.