Taye Diggs Quotes

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

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.

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

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.

Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.

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 saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

I love playing shows. That's the time I have to really share what I am about.

My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.