Rachel Tucker Quotes

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

There's something wholesome about the theatre.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.

When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

I grew up going to movies. My daddy was the projectionist, so we got in for free.

In a way, theatre is still my first love.

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.

When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

It's no use ignoring looks or charm if you're going into the theatre.

Disney is a place that I've always rooted for, and I think the audience does also because we have a deep, deep love for what that means.

My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a bit grand, and it wasn't an amphitheatre or anything like that, just a little place with a roll-up curtain box and I'm sure the plays were childish lopsided things.

I remember going to see 'Starlight Express' almost every birthday I had as a treat because I just loved it, and the idea that you could rollerskate in a sort of scary old theatre... It was sort of a novel concept.

I was Boots The Monkey in 'Dora The Explorer Live Dora's Pirate Adventure,' and it was the greatest!