Ann Reinking Quotes

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

Is there an actor who wouldn't want to sing on one of the top-rated shows in the country?

You have to work to be relevant. If you don't, then people will forget, and the studios won't want you because they won't remember the last thing you did that made money.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

Chorus Line' opened things up a bit. Any show that's successful does that. But 'Chorus Line' was about dancers.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.