Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

'Merlin' was a big step; it was my first big role in a show.

I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'

My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map.

My first live performance was the lead in 'Peter Pan.'

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor.

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.