Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes

I have been doing acting my whole life. I did plays in high school. I take it pretty seriously. I used to do a lot of Shakespeare and Shakespearean festivals and monologues.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.

My dream job would be starring in a lead role on a Broadway musical.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

Acting is something that I've always wanted to do and been interested in.

I always wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little kid. I knew that I had to do something related to performing arts, and I enjoyed acting the most as it incorporated so many different art forms.

Broadway really inspired me to want to act.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.

Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.