Normani Kordei Quotes

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

Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched 'American Idol,' but I think it was nice to be able to show kids, 'Hey, you can be here, too.'

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

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

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is because I've been a story teller for a long time. I started as a singer and found out I didn't have a very good voice. That's the reason I went into acting.

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.

When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.

I used to do cabaret as a kid and always wanted to pick it up again.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

I did a lot of musicals growing up.

I was always active on stage - taking part in dance competitions, skits, and plays.