Michael Palin Quotes

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

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

I would love to be on Broadway!

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I want to do theater, TV, movies.

Of course I am an actor but I consider myself as an entertainer as well.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.