Lea Salonga Quotes

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

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

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

There's no business like show business.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.