Poppy Quotes

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.

Since I'm not good at anything else, I hope I can keep singing for a long time.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

I love singing as much as I love acting.

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

I'd still rather be singing on stage than doing anything else.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.