Celia Cruz Quotes

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

I have sung every song with the same dedication like I sang my first number.

I'll keep singing 'till I die.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

I don't act to live. I live to act.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

The fight in theatre is focus, focus, focus.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

I have a passion to do theater.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

Acting should be an end in itself.

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

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Music and acting kind of all goes together.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It's my church and raises my spirit. It's good for my soul.

My life is to sing.