Harry Shum Jr. Quotes

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.

When I was younger, acting, singing, and dancing was what it was all about.

Maybe in another life I would have liked to have been a dancer. But I was a cheeky chappy who wanted to be an actor.

Since I was four, my goal was to be a famous singer and a famous actor.

I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.

I used to sing when I was into local theatre but gave it up to concentrate on dance.

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.

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

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

I took tap classes growing up.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.