James Wolcott Quotes

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I really love music but I've always wanted to act.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be acting in movies.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.

I played piano for cabaret stars and stuff and then eventually moved from my hometown of Perth in Western Australia to Melbourne, and somewhere in there, I decided to book myself a room and do a cabaret show of my own material.

I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

I love being on Broadway and it's awesome and a dream come true but also it's about the work and making sure you're doing what you're doing right.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

Moving to L.A. and making albums was an exciting outlet, but I always thought I'd be slumming it job to job in N.Y.C. with hopes of being on Broadway!

I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to do it. I would certainly write a ballet or... I've done a lot of stage before.

I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.

I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.

I wanted to do theatre - it has always been my thing.

I grew up dancing and singing and I just love everything about that.

My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.

I don't choose scripts with the intent to get an award.

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

I'm looking to immerse myself more in the entertainment community and possibly get into doing some acting. Music is my first love, what I was most naturally drawn to and choose to study. Getting into the acting world is like a new exciting challenge.

I was really into theater, really into music a lot.

Theatre is my first love; I would not have done it if I didn't love it and certainly not for the money - you really have to believe in it.

With 'Hamilton,' what's cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it's that good.