Carol Burnett Quotes

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

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' but I'd like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend's 60th at Claridge's the other month; I did 'Baby It's Cold Outside' with the actor Hilton McRae, and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.'

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

I grew up in the West End, so my whole background was living among theatres and musicals and the West End's coffee bars and clubs. It's kind of obvious that one day I should do something like that.

I think I definitely would have ended up in some kind of show business. I was very interested in music when I was younger. This was back when Crosby, Stills and Nash were around.

Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.

I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.

At the end of the day, I want to do film, and I want to do TV, but I grew up on stage, and I love music.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

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

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

To be able to be onstage and to hear people in the audience go, 'That's my song!' It's amazing.

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

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.

I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had every intention of continuing with theatre.

You couldn't keep me out of the school plays, the song and dance skits.